Ben initiated social greet this session with expanded social referencing. He quickly inquired if he could share two "things" on his laptop. This afforded an opportunity to expand into various topics for increased conversational turns. A new "thinking strategy" task was presented, and Ben expressed great interest. Subsequently, his affect changed, and there was uncertainly regarding his confidence level, and/or enjoyment of the activity. As this was explored with him, he shared that he was using his "poker face." This afforded a wonderful opportunity to discuss once more the dynamics of perspective taking, the perception of your communication partner, body language and gesture, and inferencing. Additional activities continue to focus on use of expanded descriptive concepts, associations and semantic relationships within various language tasks. Cross pattern movement was encouraged this session, although he preferred to remain seated.
Supports to sustain focus were successful.