Richard was greeted by SLP. He was in a good mood. We started the session by informally assessing Richard's auditory comprehension. Three sentence short stories were read aloud and slowly to Richard followed by simple 'wh' questions about the story. Richard answered these simple questions with 50% accuracy (6/12). I will continue to target this in therapy. In addition, /s/ sounds were targeted with the following data collected:
/s/ initial: independent=70%, verbal cues =30%
/s/ medial independent=65%, verbal cues =35%
/s/ final independent=80%, verbal cues =20%
Production of /s/ sounds continues to improve as Richard was able to produce /s/ in all positions of the word with decreased multimodal cueing. When asked where the air should be going when saying /s/, Richard correctly responded with "straight, not out the sides"
/s/ blends were introduced today. He was stimuable for /st/, /sp/, and /sk/ in isolation with increasing difficulty at the word level. He produced /st/ at the word level with 2/5 correct given a slight pause in the word. A visual was used to elicit /s/ blends. Overall, Richard had a great session!