Santino was greeted as he finished up with his teacher. His teacher and I discussed strategies to help achieve his current reading comprehension goals. This can be generalized in other subjects and environments as well (school & home. Rather than working on reading an entire paragraph without illustrations and then asking questions (what, where, who, etc), it would be more beneficial to break it down to asking one sentence, then ask the question OR providing visual support (illustrations of the answers) to make the goal more obtainable. I will provide some comprehension worksheets that may be helpful for Santino to work on during academic periods. While I briefly went over these suggestions with his teacher, Santino greeted me with "playground", "playground? yes". This was an opportunity to ask "what do you want to DO on the play ground?" (targeting "wh" questions and verbs). "What do you want to play with? (slide, jump, etc) When being on the playground, we played a game that involved joint attention, social engagement and referencing as well as initiation/eye contact. He would wait at the top of the yellow slide until I called "Santinoooo, where are you?" he would slide down and get tickled. We did this many times - he laughed so hard and was making great eye contact with this fun game we created. To take it a step further, I went and sat away from the yellow slide to target social initiation. It took a minute or two but he did come grab my hand and said "yellow slide" WANTING me to come play with him using verbalization to request. Auditory bombardment was provided throughout the playground with verbs, commenting - "wow", "this is fun", "come on!", "lets go", etc. When we went back inside, we targeted many language skills including increased utterance length, requesting, verbs, pronouns and turn taking. Overall, it was a great session. Santino was very happy and engaged with me the whole time.