summer speech #3

Last Tuesday was SJ's summer speech therapy.  He was in a much better mood than the week before.  She said he was a very hard worker for her.  She reviewed the synonyms that SJ had trouble with.  He had trouble with about 15 of them.  With review, he was able to get six of them correct without prompts.  He was able to identify 7 with prompting.  He still couldn't identify a synonym for calm or border.  We will have to work on those words. 

She also reviewed the antonyms that he had previously had trouble with.  He still had difficulty identifying antonyms for fancy and truth.  We will have to review those words with him as well. 

For homework, she assigned him a worksheet on choosing correct definitions for boldfaced words.  There were four words.  He was able to do two of the four correctly.  He had trouble with the word babble and palm.  I needed to explain to him what those two words meant and then he was able to match up the correct definition. 

The next homework paper was to select the best adjective from the word bank for each word and make up a sentence.  This is an example of one of the word banks.

joyful  playful  helpful  painful

 

a _____________ puppy

a _____________ injury

a _____________ song

a _____________ hint

This is a playful puppy.

This is a painful injury.

The music teacher sang a joyful song.

The student needed a helpful hint. 

 

The last thing he was assigned was a vocabulary and semantics story.  The story was about a boy who was dog sitting. After we finished the story, SJ had to answer 7 questions.  He was able to answer 4 of the 7 on his own.  He needed prompting on the other three.  I reminded him to go back into the story to find the answers.  He was resistant, but he did eventually listen.