after school speech part 55

I am so sorry that I haven't posted in a while, but it has been a very busy few weeks.  There will be a few posts in the next couple of days.  I am going to begin with SJ's last after school speech session.  He is not finished with speech, but we are switching to daytime appointments starting next Wednesday.  (That wasn't my original plan, but due to a scheduling snafu we are on a break from speech.  SJ wasn't too upset about the mistake.)

At his last appointment, his therapist continued to work on forming compound words.  She said he is doing much better with this skill, but I have found that he continues to have difficulty when she assigns this for homework. 

She also had SJ do an and/or direction exercise.  She explained to him that if she read a sentence with an "and" he would have to do both items.  She also told him if the sentence said "or" he could choose either option.  Here is an example of one of the sentences. 

Say your name and say your age.

He did fairly well with the exercise.  He got 8 out of 10 of the sentences correct.  I will work on this skill with him at home. 

She assigned SJ a few homework assignments since we were going to have a few weeks off.  I haven't made SJ do any of the assignments yet, but we will be working on these assignments next week.  The first assignment is for SJ to name as many different items as he can for 6 different categories.  The categories are insects, tools, vegetables, musical instruments, birds and body parts. 

The second assignment is two vocabulary and semantics worksheets.  SJ needs to read the stories and answer questions on main idea, details, vocabulary and semantics.  The last assignment is for SJ to identify descriptors that go together.  He needs to identify an adjective or adverb associated with the word in bold.  For example:  The new store is bigger and better than the old one.

I will let you know how SJ does on these assignments when he finishes them next week.