after school speech 18

At this week's speech session, I was able to take SJ. Normally, I can't, since I work fairly far from where we live. I picked SJ and Topher up from basketball practice (his dad was running late) and dropped him off at his house. SJ and I then went directly to therapy. He questioned why we would be getting there "so" early (we arrived 20 minutes before 6), but I reminded him that I was going to stop at McDonald's to get him some dinner.


I picked up his "usual" order (2 double hamburgers-no pickles, large fry and a medium Hi-C orange) and he ate in the car of the therapy parking lot. I hadn't met his new therapist yet and wasn't sure what her name was. A lady came out to the lobby and SJ went back with her. It was not someone I recognized.


After the 30 minute session, she and SJ came back to the lobby and he went directly to the car. I stood to introduce myself and told her I was SJ's mom. She said she was wondering who was the unfamiliar lady in the lobby, but SJ said he didn't know (stinker!). Anyhow...she was very nice and said she would have made him introduce me if she knew that I was his mom.


She told me he had a good session. She said he did a much better job keeping his hands and the rest of his body still during the session. She said they worked on emotions. She gave him an emotions word and he had to tell her a synonym for that word that was a little or a lot of the emotion. Here are the words:

Joy            Happy                     Excited

Fear          Scared/Tense          Terrified

Disgust     Nauseous/Bored     Grossed Out

Sadness     Sad/Disappointed   Depressed

Anger        Frustrated               Enraged

 
Next, she worked on emotions in social situations. She did a few exercises with him on how to express his emotions in social situations. That will be a valuable skill going forward. I told her that we would be cancelling the next few sessions due to basketball games.