On Thursday, SJ had his weekly speech session. He was pretty crabby about having "double speech", but I reminded him that he would be taking a break from speech during the holiday. I decided that since we are having a vacation from school we will take a break from speech too. He seemed pleased when he heard this news.
He wanted my husband to take him to speech, which was fine with me. I am in the process of making the many dozens of cookies that I bake each Christmas season. I was working on chewy chocolate peanut butter chip cookies and making truffles that night. My husband said that his therapist said he had a good session. She finished the testing, but she didn't have the calculations done yet. She said she would have them done when he returned in the new year.
They worked on Sequencing and Predicting Outcomes. She said he had some trouble with the sequencing. He wasn't given visual cues. He was just given a situation, such as how do you wrap a birthday present. (In all fairness to SJ, he has never wrapped a present a day in his life. However, you get the example situation.) She said she had to give him some prompts and then he was able to do the sequences.
On the predicting outcomes worksheet, he did a little better. The one that he had trouble with was this example: Your mom put water in a big pan and turned the burner to high. What happened next? He could have answered that the water boiled or I added some ingredients. He didn't know how to respond. That could be my fault, since I don't usually involve the boys in my cooking. I am always worried about the boys getting burned.
So, SJ is speech free until January 5th. I don't know how we are going to fill our Thursday evenings, but I bet I can find something for us to do!
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