after school speech part 2

SJ had "outside" speech after school today.  I am happy to report that there was minimal complaining about going.  He did say that he wished it was on Fridays.  After I told him that wasn't possible, he really didn't complain again.  We stopped at McDonald's for his regular order (hamburger Happy Meal, no pickle, with a Hi-C orange).  Bob only wanted water, which was fine with me.  We arrived at speech a few minutes early, so SJ ate his food in the car before he went in.  When his therapist came out, I told her he was in a better mood and he quietly walked back with her.  After his appointment was over, she told me that he had a very good session.  They continued to go over synonyms.  She said he did very well with that activity.  They also went over a worksheet that was on inferring feelings.  There were three statements and SJ had to decide what feeling matched up with the statement.

For example:   _________You can sit with me.                                        a. shy
                       _________Quit spraying me with water!                             b. nice
                       _________I don't want to sing in front of the family.     c. annoyed

She said he was able to match up the correct feelings with the statements easily.  I was pretty impressed with that.  She said he did struggle to orally describe what some of the feelings were.  He had trouble with annoyed, nervous, guilty, embarrassed, frustrated, alarmed, puzzled and moody.  She assigned us to go over these feelings and have SJ try to remember a time when he experienced these feelings.  Annoyed and frustrated should be easy, but moody, alarmed and puzzled will be a little more challenging. 

I am glad that SJ was not as agitated about going to speech again this week.  It makes everyone's job a little easier when he accepts something that is frustrating to him.  I guess I have one feeling example out of the way!