Ben was immersed in viewing items on his laptop upon my arrival. A sign was posted on his door; "please do not ask me a lot of questions, it's Monday and I'm tired." He promptly closed his laptop and responded to my social greet, and my comment regarding his sign. Commenting strategies were employed as the session commenced as the most appropriate tools for facilitating optimal conversational exchange. Cross pattern movement tasks were then strongly encouraged, and Ben was amenable to transitioning outside in order to utilize bean bags as a tool to enhance cadence, and patterning embedded within reciprocal naming of expanded semantic categories, items within abstract categories, and descriptive concepts. The activity was abruptly shortened as students entered the back area. Ben's affect changed dramatically as he stated " please do not ask me to do this now." I acknowledged that it was getting busy, and he shared that he was "not comfortable with so many kids out here now." We returned to his room, and he requested to do some "quieter things."
Conversation expanded into perspective taking as in previous sessions, with a focus on conveying intention, and reading gestural cues.