Data Collection Form #4

Submitted by: Chelsea Smaellie

Date:12/8/15

Childs Name: Alexander Jackson

Goal/Objective

Prompts and Responses

Sign car

Prompt

Sign please
Sign stop please when Caleb
(or I) is taking a toy from him

Response
Prompt
Response
Prompt

V
0
V
+
VI

V/M
0
VI
+
V/M

G
0
VI
+
VI

Response

>

>

G
0
VI
+
VI/
M
+

S
+
G

VI
+
VI

VI
+
VI

V/M

V/M

Made a
sound
op

Response
/Prompt
Ratio

% Correct
based on
IEP
Criteria

0/4

0%

7/7

100%

5/9

100%

Prompt
V
V/M
Response
0
>
1/2
30%
Prompt
G
Response
0
0/1
0%
Prompt
G
V/M V/M V/M V/M
Response
0
0
+
+
+
3/5
100%
Prompt
Response
Prompt
Response
Prompt
Response
Prompt
Response
G= Gesture
M= Model
I= Visual
VI= Verbal Indirect
V= Verbal
p = Partial Physical
P= Full Physical
0 =No Response IN = Incorrect
> = Approximation
+/> = Close Approximation
+ = Target Observed
S = Spontaneous

Talk into the toy phone and

hold it up to his ear
Sign ball
Sign play ball

Prompting Key:
Response Key:

Notes: When trying to get Alex to sign stop in the past we had to be the one to pick it up and play with is so that he would have to sign to us. So in this intervention session I
took his favorite truck and put it up high hoping that he would look at it and ask for it back. When we even pointed to the truck he did not notice it. So I had to take the truck down
and put it in a more visible place for Alex to recognize it and decided that he would ask me for it. Even when we got it down for him has had lost interest in it and decided to grab
our coats instead.

Impression:
Alex is doing so much better at recognizing the opportunities to sign when his siblings take something from him. I was super excited that he
started making sounds with his voice that sounded like stop. Alex is learning more signs that he can use while playing. He is now signing
please without having us verbally prompt him or model for him. He is now recognizing that when he signs he can communicate his needs and
wants. I feel that our strategy to work with his goal of signing stop has been working well, I would just like to have some new ideas for the last
days of intervention.
Objective Description of Data and Observations:
Alex was drinking from a sippy cup when he set it down on the carpet. His brother Caleb picked it up and wanted to drink out of it. I said oh
what do you say? and Alex signed please. Then I said and stop while holding my hand up and he signed stop directing it at Caleb.
When Alex picked up the toy phone I prompted him to hold it up to his ear and say hello. He had done this in a previous visit when we were
assessing him so I wanted to see what he would do. The first time I asked him there was no response. The second time I asked him there was an
approximation when instead of putting the telephone to his ear he put his hand up to his ear and tilted his head as if he were speaking on the
phone. There was no verbal attempt to say hello. When Alex put the phone down I picked it up in an attempt to see If he would ask for it back.
He looked at me and he signed please without any prompting from me. After he signed please I said what do you say? and he looked at me
but then there was no response. I wasnt thinking straight and I gave him the phone without him asking for it a couple seconds later. I tried again
and picked up the phone and said Alex what do you say? No response. He laid down. Alex you say stop (while putting my hand up) then he
did not sign stop but he MADE SOUNDS WITH HIS VOICE THAT SOUNDED LIKE OP. This was the first time that I have noticed him try
to voice the word stop This was a breakthrough moment.
With verbal prompting and modeling Alex signed play ball on the third try. The first to tries were gestures and then I had to be a little more
intrusive.
Assessment and Evaluation:
To have Alex sign stop please we first gave him a indirect verbal prompts by saying what do you say? We follow his lead with what toys we
are going to play with and where we will play in the room. We pause when giving prompts to see if he will respond. There were some times
when I would gesture to Alex with a sign to see if he would copy me or even recognize that I was signing to him. All of the gestures resulted in
no response from Alex. He needs some type of verbal prompt to have a response to us. There are some places on the data collection sheet where
I put that there was an approximation. During these times Alex would only sign part of the phrase such as please instead of please stop.
Plan:
Our plan with Alex is to continue in the hierarchy of prompting that we have been following. He is doing well with some indirect prompts as he
is recognizing what goal we are working on and what we want him to accomplish. I want to recognize more of the sounds that he is making
with his voice. His attempt to say stop was a breakthrough that we were excited to witness. I want to give him more opportunities to voice
stop while he signs it. So I am going to model saying stop and ask him to say it and sign it. Since it has been cold outside we havent had
the chance to work on his goal to not go in the street as much as we have wanted to. But we are going to go outside for the last two visits so that
he can work on that. We will use the trike to ride down the sidewalk again to have him remember what we had done before. And then we are
wanting to play ball with him and see if he stays on the grass instead of going to the road. We havent had a problem with him running to the
road when we are out there with him.