after school speech part 43

On Tuesday, SJ had speech therapy after school.  I neglected to post anything from last week.  Sorry!  He did have speech then too.  This week she was working on his "TH" words.  Sometimes when SJ says "TH" it sounds likes an "F".  She assigned us a sheet of 40 sentences with "TH" words in them.  She asked that I have him read the whole sentence, but if it gets to be too much then I can just have him read the words.  She also would like me to take note of his mindfulness of punctuation.  She wants to see if his voice will rise at the end of a sentence or sound excited when there is an exclamation point. 

We did the first ten today.  He did okay with most of them.  I did have to remind him that one of the sentences had an exclamation point.  Even with the reminder, he still read it very monotone.  I reminded him that when there is an exclamation point he needs to read it with a lot of emotion.  When he was doing the sentences, I didn't hear the "F" sound.  I only heard the "TH", but maybe he was being lazy at speech.

She also continued to work on following of multiple directions.  Usually he can do a three direction requests, but after a few of those he tends to forget.  We did a few more of those today as well; he did very well with those.  I only had to remind him once when he mixed up a third direction. 

She also reminded me that we can always go over the Figurative Language worksheets at a later date to see if he has any less difficulty with them.  Overall, she was pleased with his work in this week's session.

As usual, we headed to Target after speech.  I had a few toiletry items to get.  SJ was very cooperative in the store.  As we were about to go to the check out, he looked at me and asked me if we could go back to the toy section.  "Why is that, SJ?" I asked him.  "Just in case they got any new DC Superhero Lego sets," he said.  "It is worth a look," he added.  I didn't think they were going to have any, but since he was being so good we walked back.  Sure enough, they had 4 new sets.  SJ could only afford one, so I snapped some pictures of the others for potential birthday gifts.  "See Mom, I told you," he said.  "You were right," I replied. 

We went to the check out and then stopped at Subway to get Bob and my husband dinner.  He sat in the back seat happily eating his McDonald's and looking at his new purchase.  Not a bad day at all!