Rooms

 

Start Date:  7/10/99

End Date: 8/5/99

 

Begin by taking pictures of all the room of your house. Make sure you take the picture at the eye level of your child.  Take pictures that face the most identifiable part of the room (ie if you are taking a picture of the bedroom,  make sure the bed is visible in the picture.)

 

Test the receptive.  Place the picture of a room on the table.  Say “touch X”  You can probe this to see which rooms he does not know and teach this against the rooms he does know by placing two pictures on the table at the same time.

 

Once Lukas can receptively identify all rooms, teach the expressive. Place a picture on the table and ask “what room?”   Lukas should respond by naming the room.  Vary the picture stimuli.  He should be able to identify the rooms in his house.  Can he identify the rooms of other places?  Can he see a magazine picture of a kitchen and identify it?  The final SD is “in vivo”  Tell him to “Go to (room).”  He should go to the the room.

 

The next step is the function of a room.   Begin with the Sd “what do you do in the (room).”  You can also try the reversal , “where do you

(activity)?” He should respond with the name the room.  Other variations include in vivo,  “run to the room that you sleep in.” etc.

 

Target Items                                        Introduced                               Mastered

 

SD1

 

 

1. Lukas’s bedroom

8/2/99

8/8/99

2. Kitchen

8/2/99

8/8/99

3.bathroom

8/2/99

8/8/99

4.living room

8/2/99

8/8/99

5.laundry room

8/2/99

8/8/99

6.hallway

8/2/99

8/8/99

7.babies bedroom

8/2/99

8/8/99

8.kitchen

8/2/99

8/8/99

9. Mom or dad’s bedroom

8/2/99

8/8/99

SD2

 

 

1. Lukas’s bedroom

8/9/99

8/13/99

2. Kitchen

8/9/99

8/13/99

3.bathroom

8/9/99

8/13/99

4.living room

8/9/99

8/13/99

5.laundry room

8/9/99

8/13/99

6.hallway

8/9/99

8/13/99

7.babies bedroom

8/9/99

8/13/99

8.kitchen

8/9/99

8/13/99

9. Mom or dad’s bedroom

8/9/99

8/13/99

SD3

 

 

1. Lukas’s bedroom

8/22/99

8/26/99

2. Kitchen

8/22/99

8/26/99

3.bathroom

8/22/99

8/26/99

4.living room

8/22/99

8/26/99

5.laundry room

8/22/99

9/2/99

6.hallway

8/22/99

9/2/99

7.babies bedroom

8/22/99

8/26/99

8.kitchen

8/22/99

9/22/99

9. Mom or dad’s bedroom

8/22/99

9/11/99

10. Garage

8/23/99

9/11/99

SD4

 

 

1. Lukas’s bedroom

8/16/99

9/2/99

2. Kitchen

8/16/99

9/2/99

3.bathroom

8/16/99

9/2/99

4.living room

8/16/99

9/2/99

5.laundry room

8/16/99

9/2/99

6.hallway

8/16/99

9/2/99

7.babies bedroom

8/16/99

9/2/99

8.kitchen

8/16/99

9/2/99

9. Mom or dad’s bedroom

8/16/99

9/2/99

10. Garage

8/16/99

9/2/99

 

 

 

 

SD1:  Touch (room)

SD2: What room? What room is this? Where is this?  Whats this?

SD3:  Go to (room),  run to (room)  Show me where the (room) is  go get X in (room)

SD4: What do you do in a (room)

          Where do you (activity, example:  cook)?

          What place do you (activity)

 

Notes:  this program wasn’t too bad for us.  We were able to complete it quickly.   We had compliance issues on the in vivo issues or he would get distracted or worse,  I wouldn’t realize that a tutor was doing the rooms program and I would greet him and start talking to him so that he forgot what he was suppose to be doing.  Other issues included me having to tell tutors not to tell him to go to the babies room during nap time.  I also learned that one should not keep one’s birth control on the night stand when tutors might rush in with Lukas in tow because he was to “show me mommy’s room.”  J  We also expected full sentence responses from him since he didn’t have articulation errors, apraxia.   We shaped full sentence responses the very first week.