summer speech session #7

The Tuesday before we left for the beach SJ had his speech therapy session.  SJ had spent a few days with my parents while Bob was away at a soccer camp. I had my parents meet me at the therapy site. SJ was in a fairly good mood when he arrived. Before they started their session, I quickly told his therapist that we would be leaving for the beach in a few days as a source for conversational speech work. 


When he came out of his session, he was still in a good mood. She said he was very chatty about going on vacation. They spent some of the therapy time talking about things he was planning on doing at the beach and he told her that his friend was probably not going to make it due to an ear infection. He was pretty bummed about that. 


After they were done talking about vacation, they worked on a Figurative Language & Exclusion activity.  She had him read a story. When he was done, he needed to identify the main idea, specific details, emotions and idioms. She told me she chose this activity since SJ loves idioms. She said he did well with finding the idioms and emotions, but he was struggling some with telling her the main idea. She will continue to work on this with him.  Here is an example of one of the stories:

                          

There were four stories that they worked on. He had the same struggles with each story. This will have to be a concept that she will be addressing at additional sessions. She told me to tell him to have a great time on vacation and was looking forward to hearing his stories when he returned.