Luke worked on initial L and L blends. He did great. When he is aware we are working on these sounds his accuracy increases significantly. He had moments of resistance, but overall had a good session.
Richard did great today.
He is improving in his multiple meaning word vocabulary knowledge! Today he worked on filling in sentences with these words.
Richard worked on a pronoun worksheet where he had to replace nouns with subjective and objective pronouns 85% accuracy.
Chris was observably tired this morning, however, he was eager to discuss an "important" topic today. Recent sessions have focused strongly on successfully navigating peer relationships, managing conflict, and problem solving. He was very much wanting share that a current situation that was at the forefront of recent discussions has been resolved. Metacognition and metalinguistic skills continue to improve, as review of presupposition and perspective taking was highlighted, and he explained that he "did a great job at thinking about what "so and so " was thinking, and what they knew." He was proud that he was "thinking about thinking, like we talk about." Speaker - listener reciprocity was supported today with familiar cues, as periods of overlap were noted. Repair strategies were utilized following the use of cues supports as well.
Chris continues to demonstrate strong progress.
S: Noah was seen at the Batt School for treatment. Noah was eager to work with SLP for majority of the session. O: Noah was first asked to label the category of 3 items provided without a field of answer choices. He completed the activity with 80% accuracy. Next, he was asked what does not belong in a group of 4 items. He completed the task with 50% accuracy. After, Noah participated in an alphabet identification task, identifying letters A-I. Letters were first reviewed, then identified in a field of 3 letters. Noah identified letters A-C with 100% accuracy, D-F with 89% accuracy, and G-I with 89% accuracy. Averages across letter groups give an overall accuracy of 93%. Lastly, Noah completed a pronoun labeling activity where he was provided picture scenes and asked to choose the correct pronoun in a field of 3. He completed the activity with 70% accuracy. A: Noah displays increases across most goals. Decrease on “what does not belong” activity likely due to increased difficulty of task. P: Continue POC.
Jack had a good session. He was slightly distracted initially but then focused and completed his work with vocalic R. Jack reported that he wants to keep his 'voice' the same. He stated that he likes his 'R' sound the way it is.
Chris was eager to expand upon the topics of discussion during Monday's session. He utilized increased questioning with genuine interest as a topic initiation strategy this session across 4 topics. Speaker -speaker overlap was noted to increase as conversational reciprocity was rapid. Awareness of overlap was variable, as cues to support acknowledgement, and subsequent repair of overlap were provided across each occurrence. Chris was very much wanting to revisit the topics of perspective taking and presupposition today. Expansion into aspects of the dynamics of "text messaging in contrast to verbal face to face communication was also highlighted once again.
Hypothetical scenarios continue to afford excellent opportunities to explore and practice use of strategies to navigate successful communication exchanges. Strong session once again. Session shortened by a few minutes due to recess today.
Chris was excited to meet today, as he unexpectedly initiated the session from home this morning a few minutes ahead of schedule. He shared that he was "home from school today," and "wanted to make sure that we still had our class." He rapidly began a sort of "show and tell" as he shared the new computer apps and programs that he recently acquired. This afforded an excellent opportunity to review narrative generation, and the key components needed for a strong, cohesive, linguistically sound narrative. He quickly shared "Oh yeah Ms. Lynne, I remember all that stuff," and proceeded to generate a strong narrative with minimal cueing. Attention was strong today, and conversational reciprocity was characterized by lengthy cycles of exchange with periods of overlap notably decreased. Strong session today. He was commended for demonstrating such responsibility for ensuring that he was present today.
