after school speech part 30

On Thursday, SJ had his weekly after school speech session.  This week his therapist gave him a story about zombies.  She asked SJ to highlight the important parts of the story.  This is the story.

Zombie legends started in the country of Haiti.  Zombies were thought to be bodies that had been brought back to life and were controlled by evil masters.  However, the modern version of a zombie is much different.  In most zombie movies, books and video games seen today, a zombie is a person who has been affected by a virus that has taken away everything but their ability to eat, walk and breathe.  Modern zombies travel in large packs, looking to convert humans to zombies by biting them, which spreads the infection that turns the living into one of them.  They are often shown as slow-moving creatures with pale skin that walk in large groups. 

I have highlighted what SJ thought was important.  His therapist said he did a good job at identifying some of the key points.  He then had to answer a few questions about the story. 

He needed to answer where the folklore came from (Haiti), what is his favorite zombie video game, book or movie (he answered Plants vs. Zombies) and what the main idea was.  He told her the main idea was what zombies do and zombies past vs. present.  She was very impressed with how well SJ did with this activity (I was too!). 

Then, she moved on to situations that SJ may be in where he needs to socially know what to do.  For example:  She showed him a card that had a picture of a girl who fell off of her bike.  The boy in the picture has a worried look on his face.  The card says, "Your friend fell off her bike. What do you ask?"  SJ was able to respond with he would ask his friend if they were okay.  Another example has a family eating dinner and the phone rings.  The card says, "You are eating dinner when a friend calls.  What do you say?"  He should have responded that he is eating and he would call the friend back.  However, SJ HATES the phone, so he probably wouldn't even answer the phone.  We will have to work on the cards that focus on telephone etiquette. 

She said she only got to a few of the cards, so I will continue to work on those as homework.  Next week is our last after school speech.  We are continuing speech through the summer, but I will title those posts as summer speech.