Orange Ya Glad Thanksgivings Next Week?

The color of the week for my action research is orange. So far, the student that I have been working with has been doing a great job and is progressing very well. The colors we have worked with so far include red, blue and green. He is able to identify blue and green pretty well when asked but we still have our set-backs from time to time. For example, sometimes instead of looking at the object, this student will just respond with a color...it is always "green". When this occurs, I have to remind the child to focus and look at the object that we are discussing. Also when this occurs I try to get the child off of his "fixation" that he is currently having with the color green. Students with Autism often get fixated on certain objects or ideas. I feel that often occurs with this student because "green" is always the color of choice.

Although this student has been doing well, he refers to orange as "grenorange". I take this as his way of saying green but also including the orange into the mix. I hope by the end of the week to have him saying simply "orange".