Richard was greeted in his classroom after his OT session with Ms. Willow. Richard was laying on his beanbag chair eating skittles. He was asked to put them away until after lunch, which he did comply with the request. I had a brief conversation with Willow regarding Richard's demeanor this school year. It has been clear that Richard has been more defensive and combative during sessions. I recall when he gets hungry, he becomes irritable so I avoid that by always offering a snack prior to the session. Social stories and pragmatic language is being targeted in therapy as well to work on situational goals with peers and teachers/therapists. Richard was less defensive in today's session overall and was happy to comply with most tasks. Ms. Willow said he had an orange as a snack in her session prior to mine which may have helped. Richard required prompting and moderate cues while targeting social and pragmatic goals. He became slightly frustrated when not knowing an appropriate way to respond to situations however when we talked through them, he felt better about the answers. Following that, we targeted multisyllabic and /s/ sounds in a semi structured task. We talked about pictures presented and how they may apply to our lives.He enjoyed this. He required moderate cues to "keep his tongue back", and "teeth together" for /s/ production at conversational level. Richard requested a book we did last year so we did that (auditory comp), answering questions about the book. Rate of speech was increased with topics of interest and excitement. Cues were offered to decrease rate of speech for intelligibility purposes, which was effective for short term however quickly returned to rapid rate with a new topic. Frequent cues required. Overall, it was a better session today.