summer speech therapy part 3

SJ had another speech therapy session yesterday.  We are in a rotation of different speech therapists each week.  So far, no reaction from SJ and they all have seemed very good.  When today's therapist came out to talk to me, she told me that SJ had a good session.  They worked on synonyms and antonyms in a crossword puzzle exercise.  She said he did very well, but there was a word bank for him to use.  He always does well when he has a word bank.  His second exercise didn't utilize a word bank, so he didn't do as well.  The therapist assisted him with some phonemic cues, which guided him to realize the correct answer.  The last exercise was making predictions.  SJ has a lot of trouble with predictions.  She needed to give him many prompts and assigned that exercise as homework.  I think many kids on the spectrum have difficulty making predictions.  I used to think maybe he didn't have an active imagination, so that is why he couldn't make predictions.  However, the older he gets, I realize that isn't the correct assumption.  I believe his thought process is so solidified in the concrete that he sometimes can't see into the unknown.  I am hoping with practice and maturity he won't be so literal.  I am hoping that his thought process can blossom and see all the options the world has to offer.