Day 7 3/23/15

Blog 7 

3/23/15

 

During lab on Monday night I was assigned by Dr. MacDonald to work with Finny. After a few minutes of waiting Finny did not show up.  I was assigned to work with Tom whose student was Thomas.  After Thomas finished eating his Doritos we brought him into the dance studio.  When I first met Thomas he shook my hand and introduced himself. I was happy to see that he had good social skills when first meeting someone.  I am not sure if this was part of Toms affective domain or not but it was great to see! When we got into the dance studio Thomas was wondering around greeting everyone.  He seemed to be very stimulated with the mirror. We tried to have Thomas play soccer. He would pick up the ball and throw it. After a few minutes of that he wandered again. Tom said it was in his lesson plan to work with another group in an activity. Thomas didn't want to have any part of that though.  He wandered to the other gym where a classmate he didn't get along with was in.  We redirected Thomas out of the gym.  I work in an ABA program over the summer so I use this strategy often.  I simply placed my hand on his shoulder and walked between him and the classmate he didn't get along with.  After when he was in the hall he wondered down the hallway.  We attempted to use extinction and asked Thomas to tell us when he was ready to play. He again wondered down the hall near the elevator.  He then found the elevator button pushed it and refused to get out.  While in there he dropped and was noncompliant with the demand to get up.  Lesley the graduate assistant went in there and after a few minutes got Thomas out of the elevator.  By the time this happened the time for class was over.  Overall, I felt a little frustrated.  I did not know if we handled the situation correctly but I was unsure what else to do.  I know that Thomas had some time off from school so I'm not sure if this could have triggered it.  Today was challenging but I was glad I got to see how to handle challenging situations.