When Cillian next asked for a drink, he was offered the following choices (see table below)
Later that afternoon he shouted "yellow cup". He poured out the water in the yellow cup and the juice in the blue cup was offered instead. Both were replaced and he chose the blue cup.
Since then he has been using ordinary cups and tumblers. We could have thrown his yellow cup away and worked through the tantrums. However this reinforced, less rigid behaviour, and encouraged more appropriate behaviour at meal times and in other peoples houses.
|
Yellow Cup |
Blue Cup |
Leaf Cup |
Results |
|
1 water |
Blackberry Juice |
Orange Juice |
Sipped all 3 twice, chose leaf cup |
|
2 water |
Blackberry Juice |
Milk |
Sipped all 3 chose leaf cup |
|
3 water |
Diet Pepsi |
Blackberry juice |
Sipped all 3 chose blue cup |
|
4 water |
Blackberry Juice |
Diet Pepsi |
Looked at them all, said leaf and took it. |
Barerseree
posted on Friday, 18 January 2013 19:05:56 Europe/London