after school speech part 22

On Thursday, SJ had his weekly after school speech session. His therapist told me that SJ was extremely chatty with her. He told her that we were going on Spring Break (we aren't actually going anywhere, but he is off school until April 10th) and that he had only one more day of school. She worked on Problem Solving and Main Ideas.

For the Problem Solving, she showed SJ a picture of some kids at a table with a board game. There was a story that followed to tell us what was going on in the picture. It said that it was a rainy day. The kids decided to play a board game, but there weren't any instructions. None of the kids had played that game before. One of the kids wanted to play something else, but the one boy persisted that they could figure it out.

SJ had to answer questions about the story. She started by having SJ make a visual chart to hit all the key points of the story. She had a Main Idea bubble connecting to SJ's answer that "they tried to play a board game". She had a Problem bubble connecting to SJ's answer "no instructions". She had a Solution bubble connecting to SJ's two thoughts of "I don't know" and "another game".

SJ then moved onto to the actual "test" looking questions. He had to answer three questions about the main idea and details. He answered all of these correctly. He then had to answer five questions on problem solving. He also answered all five correctly.

Next, she had SJ ask her a question about playing a board game. He wrote, "There was a board game that the telephone rings. What do you do?' She finished this activity by having him sequence the story (he did well with this) and list the details (he missed one of the details).

Finally, she worked on Imagining and Role Projection. She gave him six situations. He had to imagine what would happen. For example: Jeremy's bike has a flat tire. Ray asks Jeremy to ride bikes together. What would Jeremy say to Ray? SJ did very well with this activity. She assigned him the remaining situations as homework.

When we spoke at the end of his session, I asked her to also work on getting him to be more positive about girls. He is still agitated at least once a week over something he claims a girl did. I want her to try to help us get him to understand that we need to be kind to all of his classmates. Hopefully, she will have better luck with this than I did. Fingers crossed!