Richard greeted me happily in the lobby. Richard did very well today - it was pleasant to see his progress in the area of speech & language. In my professional opinion, I believe reducing to 2x weekly of therapy would be adequate and spend the extra hour a week on reading/academics. Richard's speech intelligibility has significantly increased over the last few months. We spoke in depth about his improvement and he reported that people understand him more now and he is "happy with his sounds". He is more aware of the social impacts it has had on him and how his improvement in speech has helped. We discussed the last sound to target is /th/ and now that his /s/ in conversation has been nearly met, it is time to start working on /th/. It is also age appropriate to have correct production of both voiced and voiceless /th/. We also targeted past tense in both structured and conversational tasks. These are more difficult for him during unstructured environments however he is more aware of the errors when prompted. We did some figurative language goals which Richard has definitely improved with. Lastly, we worked on the calendar which Richard has grown to really enjoy. He likes to plan what holidays/breaks are approaching. Overall, he has done well and I believe reducing speech therapy to 2x weekly is appropriate.