using intraverbals to get tacts??

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A child I see has been having some BIG difficulties acquiring tacts. He is

manding quite well and verbally. Receptively he is identifying items by

feature and function and all the skills before that are mastered.

Intraverbally he has mastered MANY fill-ins as well as all the skills before

fill-ins (singing songs, etc). Tacts are a BIG goose-egg! He has not

mastered a single goal under Tacts.

Here is what we are trying and I wanted to know if anyone else has done this

before to get tacts. I have typically seen the use of tacts to link them to

intraverbals. However with this child we have begun using his intraverbal

fill-ins to get tacts. Does that make sense? For example he will fill in

airplane if you say, " You fly in an ..... " So we are holding up a picture of

an airplane when he fills in the word, " airplane. " Then we are quickly

asking, " What is it? " while holding up the picture of the airplane.

Currently we are using reinforcing items for him to label such as Pooh. We

are using his intraverbal fill-in " Winnie the..... pooh " to get him to label

pooh, Bob and....larry, etc.. So far it's working and he has mastered about

5 tacts, but it's still slow-moving.

We are desperate at this point. We have been working on tacts for 4 months

now and only 5 have been mastered...and that within the past few weeks, after

we started using fill-ins. Just 6 months ago he began talking and his

intraverbals have really taken off! Now it's getting to a point where we

NEED tacts to further progress in other areas such as receptive and

intraverbals!!!

Any advice is much appreciated!

Shauna