after school speech #16

Last Wednesday, SJ had his weekly speech session.  He was pretty crabby about going, but his therapist said he worked very hard for her.  

They worked on predicting and outcome.  She said he got 80% of the predictions correct. They also worked on completing sentences.  For example:  

You wear a bathing suit when you go ___________.  

He had to answer with swimming.  She said he did fairly well with this activity.  He had some trouble with unfamiliar words like leotard.

Next, they worked on antonyms.  He had to read a sentence and circle the antonym for the bold word.  For example:

I got detention because I was tardy for class.

SJ's choices were late, prompt or overdue.  He had to choose prompt.  Out of the 11, he had difficulty with 4 of the sentences.  He could correctly answer 2 of them with prompts and 5 of them independently.

Last, they worked on a main idea worksheet. She said he had some trouble with this activity. He had to read a passage, underline the main idea and draw a line through each non supporting detail.  This was one of the passages.

Ellen's dog, Nibbles, is an unusual dog.  He's four years old today.  Whenever anyone pets him, Nibbles sneezes.  And it's not just your average sneeze-it's a humongous, blow-out sneeze!  Nibbles also sneezes after he eats or drinks anything.  Nibbles has light brown hair with white paws and a white chest. Maybe we should give Nibbles a more unusual name to go with his unusual habit-like Gesundheit!

With assistance, he was able to underline Nibbles sneezes and crossed out that Nibbles was four years old and that he has light brown hair with white paws and a white chest. She said she will continue to work on this skill.