Goal for Liam: YES and NO

I haven't updated the goals on the doors, but I wanted to remind you that we are focusing on YES and NO again with Liam this month. He seems to be getting it. I have heard many YESes and a few NOs.

Shelby told me that on Saturday, she wanted to play with the paper piano with Liam and he looked at her and said: "NO piano NO". So, she said: "NO piano!!! We will NOT play with the piano." So, that's a great example of him realizing that instead of random words (e.g., piano, grandma, flamingo, yeah liam, iiiaaa), it is more effective to just tell us NO. In those cases when he still uses a random word, just remind him: "Liam, you just need to tell me NO" and make a big deal of following his instructions when he says NO (e.g., "ladies and gentlemen, Liam said NO to the piano!").

He seems to be getting better with the YESes. Sometimes he asks for a toy, and I am not sure, so I say: "do you want the numbers?", and instead of repeating "want the numbers", he is saying YES. So, again, make a big deal of thoses YESes and hurry to deliver to him whatever he wants. I tell him: "I LOVE your YESes, they sound so nice! and they are so helpful!"

THANKS!