after school speech part 52

SJ had his weekly speech therapy session on Tuesday.  SJ's therapist continued to work on compound words with him.  He needs to make a compound word by taking a word from two different columns.  After he makes the compound word, he needs to write a short definition.  The words he came up with with the following.

barefoot-having nothing on your feet

homework-work you have to do at home

playtime-a time to play

His therapist said SJ had some trouble with the definition for barefoot.  She helped him figure out the definition.  I told her that it was comical that he said he didn't know what that was.  He is "barefoot" in our house all the time. 

 

They also worked on identifying words from definitions.  They read a definition and he had to tell her what the word was.  They did 10 together.  He was able to do 5 of them on his own.  His therapist had to assist him with the other five.  One of the ones he needed help with was this one. 

A long wooded alley that bowling balls are rolled down-lane

I would have thought he would have known that it is a lane considering he LOVES BOWLING!  I was surprised that he didn't know the terminology of something he should be familiar with. 

 

She also worked on another knock, knock joke with SJ.  This was the joke.

Knock, knock

Who's there?

Turnip

Turnip who?

Turnip the volume, it's quiet in here.

She said he had difficulty with the humor in this joke.  His therapist had to explain to SJ what a turnip is.  He had no idea it was a vegetable.  She then explained to him that you hear "turn up" in the last line for the word turnip.  After her explanations, SJ thought the knock, knock joke was funny. 

 

She assigned him to finish the remainder of the worksheet on forming compound nouns and identifying words from definitions.