Still playing catch up, so I am going to combine these two speech therapy posts into one. At speech session 9, SJ was very upset on his way there and during the session. Apparently, he realized that he would be having speech therapy on his birthday (which was over a month away at that point). He complained for 10 of the 30 minutes of the session that he didn't want to come to speech on his birthday. He told his therapist that "he just wanted a normal day" on his birthday. She assured him that she would talk to me and then she got him back on task. They worked on Fact and Opinion for the remaining session. She said he was struggling some with the topic. She gave him prompts and he did somewhat better when prompted.
When his session was done, she told me about the "birthday problem". I told her I would let her know at the next session. I asked her if he told her about the Snowflake Dance or our ski trip. She said he didn't, but she made a note to ask him about it at the next session.
Last Tuesday was the next session. I told him in the car that I was going to cancel the appointment that fell on his birthday. That made him so happy, so I was hoping he would work much harder for his therapist. I am happy to report that he did. She told me that they again worked on Fact and Opinion. She used the topics of the dance and the ski trip for the exercise. She said he did much better than the last session. Maybe having a topic he is familiar with made the exercise easier for him. She also did some Idioms with him. There are still many idioms that he is not familiar with, but once he knows them he tries to use them in his conversational speech. He enjoys the fact that they are humorous. She wished him a happy birthday and a nice Easter and told him she would see him in April.
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