summer speech #2

Last Tuesday, SJ had his weekly speech therapy appointment.  When I got there, I told her how SJ had done on his homework.  She had assigned him to choose the correct definition for each word.  Then, he had to make a sentence using that word. 

For example:  melon 

1. a large fruit with a hard rind and juicy flesh
2. a canoe made of skins stretched over a wooden frame
3. a small animal whose back is covered with stiff spines
4. a large basket used for holding laundry

He was able to correctly choose #1 and the sentence who decided on was Can I eat the melon?

He was also assigned a paper on using adjectives.  He was given a word bank with four words.  He had to decide which word would be best to describe the nouns.  Then, he had to make up a sentence for each word.

For example:  stringy  cheerful  broken  bumpy

the bumpy road - The bumpy road shook the cars.
a cheerful hello - I said a cheerful hello.
the stringy cheese - The stringy cheese is fun to eat.
the broken eggshells - I cleaned up the broken eggshells.

He also had to complete a worksheet that they had begun in their session.  He needed to give an opposite word for each word listed.  We were also to go over the ones that he missed when he was doing this with his therapist.  One that he had missed with her was beautiful.  He needed to answer ugly.  He answered horrible after prompted.  It is not exactly correct, but it wasn't a synonym.  He was able to get 50% of the ones he missed with his therapist correct when I prompted him. 

We also had to review some adverbs that he was having trouble with.  For example: The doctor looked at the patiently seriously.  He kept saying that "seriously" was more of a sarcastic response.  I reminded him that it means "not being funny". 

At his session, she went over the homework that we did.  Plus, she started working on identifying synonyms.  He completely missed two (crumple-crush and beautiful-pretty), he got three correct (ill-sick, begin-start and chilly-cold) and five he got after she prompted him (infant-baby, jog-run, great-terrific, fast-quick and sea-ocean).  She said that when she had to prompt him she found it was easier if she put the word in a sentence.  She asked me to complete the remaining 25 words with him for homework.  She also assigned him another worksheet on adjectives. 

I asked her how his mood was.  He has been very crabby with the new gluten limited diet.  She said he was talking in his monotone voice, but he was still working hard.  I was glad to hear that.