Two sessions ago, SJ had his weekly speech therapy session. It was the week before the Luau Dance, so I asked his therapist to give him some strategies for potential social situations. After SJ was finished, she told me that he did very well during the session. They worked on Cause and Effect for half of the session. She was extremely impressed with how well he did on the Cause and Effect exercises.
For the second half of their session, she went over scenarios that would (and did) happen at the dance. He told her that he had asked two girls to dance at the last dance, but they declined. Then, she proceeded to give him strategies if that situation presented itself again. For example: She told SJ that if the girl says "No thanks" he could still try to strike up a conversation with her about something else. She suggested he try to find something to compliment her on or something that they have in common, such as a class or activity. She also went over some body language cues that SJ could look for to see if the person he was speaking with was interested in their conversation. (SJ has a tendency to talk about subjects for long periods of time that are only interesting to him.)
She also gave him a homework paper that had some other social situations that he could practice before going to the dance. I went over a few of them with him hoping that this last dance would be his best dance. We'll see...
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