after school speech part 14

This Thursday after school speech continued. SJ was not in the mood to go, but I wasn't listening. I knew we were going to have to go straight there from school. (Usually, I go home to drop off Bob with my husband; however, he was out of town that day.) I packed snacks and drinks for both boys. I was trying to be proactive to avoid the predicted complaining about being hungry and thirsty. Neither boy ate their snack, but the drinks were gone within 5 miles of leaving school.

SJ's therapist worked on Cause and Effect. She gave him a picture with an effect (i.e.: a kid with ripped jeans) and he needed to give two possible causes. She said he did fairly well with that activity. She next gave him a picture of kids playing in water coming from a fire hydrant. He had to answer the following four questions:

1. What kind of weather does this picture show?

2. Who opened the fire hydrant?

3. Which children are having fun and which aren't?

4. How do you know this is a city scene?

She said he was able to answer all four questions with ease. I was a little surprised at this. I don't know if SJ has ever seen a fire hydrant or realized that city kids used to play in the water from them.

The last thing they worked on was Sequencing. She gave him a situation and he had to give First, Next and Last responses. An example of one that she did with him was "make a bed". She said he had a lot of difficulty with this activity. She gave me the sheet of examples and that was his homework for the week.

When I was about to make his lemonade flavored Kool-Aid today, I thought this would be a good opportunity to see if knew the steps for making Kool-Aid. (He has seen me do more times that I can count!)  He was able to get through the sequencing, but only after I gave him some prompts. She was right and he definitely needs to work on sequencing.

She also told me that she would go over his test results next week, so I am looking forward to seeing if he is making any significant progress.