The session commenced with Christopher excitedly wanting to share the Marvel characters that he had brought with him once again . This afforded the opportunity to once again expand on the concepts of perspective taking, as well as expansion of increased abstract semantic concepts. Conversation expanded into the ideas of character description beyond the visual observances, and "the doing" descriptors. Expansion into the concepts of personality traits that are greater in depth and scope to include the concepts of character qualities was addressed. Strong support was provided and additional characters from other motivational tv shows was explored, as well as utilizing Christopher and myself as the focus provided a stronger platform for Chris to identify with the concepts. Further elaboration into story grammar generation and narrative development followed.
The use of cohesive ties and temporal links was again supported. Additionally, cues to support the acknowledgment of your conversational partners gestures, facial expressions and non verbal feedback is important to the success of their understanding of the topic. These are familiar concepts that have been introduced as they relate to conversational exchange. Christopher was motivated and focused throughout the session. Focus once again on the concept of "thinking about thinking" as topic shift was again high. Chris once again identified with the notion of "lots of ideas jumping around in his head", and responded well to cues and prompts to support more linear progression of utterances with use of ties. Strong session.