Inside an ABA session, kind of

I’m sitting out in the living room, and this is what I hear/see: (I am not sure the therapist wants her name up on this site, so I shall just call her Therapist. Her name begins with “T” so initials won’t much help. 😛

Therapist: “More? More cars?”
*pause*
Tristan: “ga ga ga, ga ga ga, ga ga ga ga ga GA”
*ambient noise of maracas and shaking stuff*
*random noises that sound like clicking*
Therapist: “Why don’t you finish chewing?”
Therapist: “You found the square! Scribble?”
(I don’t see anything over the baby monitor)
Tristan: *hums first three notes of This Old Man over and over*
Therapist: “Are you looking for matching? Do you want to do matching?”
*clicking sounds*
*chatting about Tristan still eating*
Therapist: “Let’s stand up!”
Therapist: “Squish into your pillow”
Therapist: “Ready? Row, row, row your boat..” *continues singing*
Therapist: *claps and praises Tristan*
*Tristan tries to open the door*
Therapist: “Good clapping!”

Therapist: “London Bridge is falling down..” *continues singing*
Therapist: *claps and praises Tristan*
*Tristan appears on the monitor and starts turning on his naptime music*
*Therapist removes him to refocus*
*Tristan sits on a blue chair, plays with his house toy, and distinctly says “a-ha”
*Tristan plays with the music on house toy while Therapist gathers things*
*Therapist joins Tristan at the house toy and starts talking about what he is doing*
*Tristan continues playing and Therapist begins setting materials onto his table*
*Tristan gets up and walks off the camera view*
*Tristan cackles and says “da” or “that”*
*Therapist physically arranges Tristan in front of table to play with the spinner, which is what she set on the table a moment ago*
*Therapist demonstrates and Tristan fiddles with some of the parts*
*Tristan attends to the clicking sound of the spinner and watches the spinning motion while Therapist attempts to get him to do it himself*
*Suddenly they’re playing a matching game and Tristan is just moving the stuff around*
Therapist: “Ready? Match!”
Tristan: “gaaaaaa!”

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