summer speech-session 1

Two Fridays ago, SJ had his first summer speech therapy session at his new daytime slot. He had a little trouble getting back into the swing of things.

She told me that initially he had trouble making eye contact.  She prompted him to remind him to look at her.  She said she asked him about our California vacation. She thought he would be able to easily converse about this topic. Surprisingly, he had trouble with this activity.  

She did a visual chart, so that he could see how many times he was answering her questions, asking her questions and making eye contact. He wasn't getting many check marks, because he wasn't always looking at her.  He told her he was looking at her.  She told him he couldn't just look at her foot or leg.  He had to look at her eyes.  

He questioned his progress and she told him what he forgot to do.  "I didn't know I have to use complete sentences," was his response to her asking him to use more than one word answers.  She reminded him that "back at you" is not a good response.  

She had him fill out a worksheet on participating in a reciprocal conversation. She said he did very well with this activity.  

The last activity they worked on was idioms. She reported that he did very well on this activity.  We wouldn't have another session for two weeks, since the following Friday was the Fourth of July.