after school speech part 49

Yesterday, SJ had his weekly speech therapy session.  He wasn't too thrilled to be going to speech, but he was still going.  At least this week, the complaining only lasted until we started a drive to the speech therapy office. 

His therapist said he did very well for her.  They continued to work on idioms.  She said he is getting better at them.  I told her he had used one in a sentence the day before.  He said he was "having butterflies in his stomach" over taking a writing PSSA test the next week.  She seemed pleased that he was using it appropriately.

She said they were working on identifying associated objects.  She said he had some trouble with this activity.  She said he wanted to give her synonyms instead of an associated object.  For example:  soap and _________.  His response was shampoo when it should have been water.  She assigned a sheet of these for homework.

She also started working on identifying key elements in sentences.  They did the first few together.  She said he did pretty well with this.  She said he could finish the remainder of the worksheet for homework.

The last thing she assigned him for homework was multiple direction worksheet.  She wants me to keep track of how many times I have to give him the instructions in order for him to complete it. 

After speech, we made our usual stop at Target for some household items.  SJ wanted to look at the toys, so we made our way back to that section.  SJ couldn't find anything within his budget, so he left empty handed.  We stopped at Subway and got Bob's dinner.  SJ was very quiet on the way home.  Between bites of his McDonald's and playing on his IPod, he didn't have much to say.  I would rather have that than the complaining that I was hearing earlier.