Poor little guy. He has had a pretty tough 24 hours. He is doing SO well with his programs that guess what? He gets rewarded by making things much harder. It makes sense - truly it does. He is at a 95-97% success level. The sweet spot is somewhere in the 80-90% range. If it's too easy for him, then we're not maximizing his learning. Keep in mind - he has a lot of catching up to do developmentally. It is in all of our best interest to move him along as quickly as he can handle. So away we go. The biggest change introduced this week has to do with his demeanor during his programs. Currently, if he whines about it but still does it correctly, it counts. He still gets whatever was promised to him. Now, if he whines or protests in any way, it will be considered an error. So this means that he may do exactly what the therapist wants him to do but he doesn't get his trains, shows or whatever was promised because he whined in the process. He's going to be beyond frustrated. Just when he thinks he gets is all figured out, we change the rules of the game. Again, it makes sense. Even I can see that he memorizes patterns a lot of the time rather than truly learning. He tries to figure out the quickest way to get it done and move on. So, this is going to be good for him in the long run. I'm just dreading how hard it's going to be until he does figure out the new rules.
He had a somewhat difficult 2-hour session this afternoon where our supervisor tried this out. Lots of crying. Not as bad as last night, but lots of crying. We then had a good afternoon and I was even able to work with him a little to catch up. But when I took away the Ipad at dinner time, he lost it. After he finally calmed down from that, I put him in his chair in front of a video and he crashed almost immediately. Poor little dude. I hope he does sleep all night. He's going to need some extra sleep. Tomorrow is a light day - only 1 session from 12-3:30 but next week may be a tough one.
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