Richard did great today. He started off the session perseverating on a new game he had started for his Nintendo. He only wanted to discuss the initial steps of the game and so we deviated from the plan slightly in order to get him more engaged. We researched different Pokémons that had /th/ in the name. He used visual scanning techniques and a highlighter to search the list looking for /th/ targets. He then incorporated the target name in a sentence to including one fact about the Pokémon. We continued our session with /th/ in conversation. He often replaced medial /th/ in “something” to “some ping”. He is beginning to demonstrate some frustration to being corrected in conversation. We changed our approach and I just pointed to /th/ on a piece of paper instead of interrupting his thought pattern. He still didn’t really like it but he was able to finish his thought before attempting to correct the habitual error.
We continued by reading a grade level text together. We pointed out various text features and matched grade level vocabulary to the correct definitions.