after school speech part 3

On Thursday, SJ had his afterschool speech session.  We went home for a few minutes before we made the drive to the therapy center.  He seemed to enjoy having the small break at home, so he could have a snack and grab some plushies for the drive out.  He was in a great mood when his therapist greeted him in the lobby.  They were working on Cause and Effect.  The therapist began by showing SJ pictures that gave him a situation, such as a mom giving her kid a new toy.  He had to choose between a sad kid and a happy kid.  He did very well with this exercise.  Next, she had him do a worksheet that used words and pictures.  The first sentence was "Grandma forgot to water her plants."  Underneath the sentence were two pictures.  There was a picture of healthy plants and one of dead plants.  He had to circle what would happen when Grandma didn't water her plants.  He did very well with this exercise too.  The third worksheet he did gave a picture and then asked a question.  There was a picture of a boy adding chocolate powder to a glass of milk.  He had to verbalize what effect that would have.  Again, he did well with this exercise.  The last of the Cause and Effect worksheets was more difficult for him.  This worksheet gave the ending effect and SJ had to decide what the cause would be.  There were no picture cues to assist him.  The first one was Tara opened the refrigerator door.  “Ick!  Something sure smells,” she thought.  “Dad must have forgotten to clean out all the leftovers from last week."  It had a blank cause section and it said the effect was that something in the refrigerator smelled bad.  SJ had trouble deciding that Dad should have cleaned out the refrigerator.  His therapist needed to prompt him to look at the sentence to deduce the cause.  Since he had trouble with this exercise, we are to practice this for homework.  On a different positive note, she told me that SJ was chatting away with his old Occupational Therapist while he was waiting for me to pick him up.  He hasn't been her patient in a few years, but it was nice to hear that he was comfortable conversing with her.  I am glad that he had a good session!