Richard was seen at 8:30-9:30am for ST/language therapy. He was greeted by the SLP in his room. He was happy and quite talkative today. He reported he had a "sugary drink" at the coffee shop near school which may have increased his communication output more than usual. Overall, Richard required moderate cues to reduce rate of speech. We worked on his awareness of "too fast" or "just right" when he was communicating with SLP. It was evident that when Richard is talking about things he is interested in (i.e pokemon, dragons, etc), his rate of speech increases rapidly. He accurately judged appropriate rate of speech 3/5 times. He required frequent visual cues (SLP using hand movement downward) to prompt a reduction in rate of speech - which was inconsistently effective. In addition, articulatory contact with his articulators is noticeably weak during conversational speech. This was the primary goal targeted in today's session throughout all activities in addition to sequencing thoughts into verbal output. There was a lingual lisp noted 4x throughout the session which was corrected with verbal cues. When targeting /s/ and /s/ blends in structured task today, RIchard produced them accurately at 100%. We read a book aloud to target auditory comprehension, answering wh questions, vocabulary enrichment, social/emotions, and overall articulation. Richard did well overall however required increased prompts today.