after school speech #22

Two Mondays ago, SJ had his weekly speech therapy session.  We had gotten there a little early, because we had made a detour to get his glasses replaced.  (I didn't know one child could break so many pairs of glasses.  This had to be broken set # 5 or 6.) We stopped at Five Below and SJ selected a video game poster for his room.

During his session, they first worked on Problems to Solve.  He had to read a situation and then select the choice that made the most sense.  She said he did fairly well with this activity.  Here is one of the situations.

Jessica's class is taking a math test.  Jessica doesn't understand many of the math problems.  The student sitting next to Jessica is a math whiz.  Jessica really wants to pass the test.  What could Jessica do?

a.  Copy the answers from the math whiz.

b.  Do her best on the test, even if she fails.

c.  Talk to her teacher.  Ask for help to understand the math.

d.  Say she feels sick and needs to go home.

He chose "b", which was the correct choice. Then, they worked on Defining Words with Multiple Meanings from Context Clues.  She said he did very well with this activity.  He had to choose the correct definition for the boldfaced word in each of the nine sentences.  Here is an example of one of the sentences.  

The king is the ruler of his nation.

a.  the head of the country

b.  a twelve-inch measure

He correctly chose "a".  Finally, she worked on his conversational skills, which she reported are getting much better.