Tristan was in a great mood knowing vacation was coming for the holiday. He was excited about his art work and asked to give me a tour of his latest masterpieces. We had great conversation about art and his technique with blowdrying the paint. It is a calming activity for him. He was relaxed and hit all his target sounds of /s/ with tongue in position in phrases/short sentences.

Spencer's session before was completing a science experiment. There were a few steps left, that we wrapped up while practicing our /R/. He requested doing a cool experiment that he saw on YouTube. We made a list of the ingredients needed for next session. Spencer kicks it into another gear when he is motivated and excited about a subject. His executive functioning skills when it came to planning and problem solving were sharp and he needed little help from me except with writing down the material list.

Richard was eating his lunch when I arrived at 10:30am and still hungry. Always targeting problem solving skills, Richard then remembered that we might still have ingredients from our milkshakes in the kitchen. We did and Richard was able to make a smoothie. It was interesting to observe, his improvement in sequencing, description, and independence in the kitchen (although still messy) from when we did this activity earlier in the year. He is overall more conscientious in his work and slowing down his speech which has improved his articulation with multi syllable words. He still talks fast in general but with a subtle cue, he slows himself down.

Chris excitedly began sharing numerous topics in rapid succession as the session commenced. He was thrilled to share details about his vacation, beginning with the Rolling Stones concert that he attended, and the celebrities that he met there. He rapidly shifted into naming the confirmed cast lineup in the new Spiderman movie, and the fact that he had pre ordered tickets for the release date. Chris was overrun with such excitement, and although support for reciprocity was strongly provided, topic shifting was rapid and arousal state was high. Overall allowance for speaker listener exchange cycles was inconsistent throughout the session. It is significant to note however, that self awareness was strong and verbal acknowledgement of attentional shifting and limited allowance for conversation was noted. Question stimuli prompted most responses this session, as well as providing a cohesive link for topic shifts.

Richard was greeted in the lobby when he came in from outside with another teacher. We targeted some social skills today with peers as well as teachers. Richard has been implementing feedback quite well in situations. Additionally, we targeted mostly articulation at the informal/conversational level to carry over the skills that have been mastered at a structured level. Richard required min-mod cues to produce /s/ in conversation accurately. Speech intelligibility has improved however when he increases rate of speech during topic of interests, the intelligibility tends to decrease. This does appear to be occurring less frequently. Richard's overall speech and language skills have improved. We did some reading/comprehension tasks with the last Thanksgiving book of his choice today. Richard's attention has been fair-good which helps with overall comprehension. There were a few errors with irregular past tense during unstructured tasks however when cued, the error was corrected.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we created a fall themed leaf mobile reflecting on things/people/activities that make us feel thankful and happy. What seemed like a hard activity to begin with (thinking of 5 things we are grateful for), turned into an incredible conversation about how many "little" things make us feel good. Although we enjoyed the activity, Chris was stuck on solving a social issue at school and had a hard time getting out of the "red zone" and into the "green zone," which is where we can be a better problem solver. We reviewed our list of things we can control and things for which we are grateful.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we created a fall themed leaf mobile reflecting on things/people/activities that make us feel thankful and happy. This was an excellent language activity with lots of practice of our speech sounds. What seemed like a hard activity to begin with (thinking of 5 things we are grateful for), turned into an incredible conversation about how many "little" things make us feel good. We are all so lucky!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we created a fall themed leaf mobile reflecting on things/people/activities that make us feel thankful and happy. This was an excellent language activity with lots of practice of our speech sounds. What seemed like a hard activity to begin with (thinking of 5 things we are grateful for), turned into an incredible conversation about how many "little" things make us feel good. Tristan really got into the activity and told me he was "thankful for our fun lessons."

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we created a fall themed leaf mobile reflecting on things/people/activities that make us feel thankful and happy. This was an excellent language activity with lots of practice of our speech sounds. What seemed like a hard activity to begin with (thinking of 5 things we are grateful for), turned into an incredible conversation about how many "little" things make us feel good. We are all so lucky! Loved how Richard responded to this social emotional lesson full of great vocabulary and language.

Spencer was excited to show some of his work from a science project. So we reviewed some of the vocabulary while focussing on /r/ sounds. Spencer expressed his interest in doing more science projects and experiments so we researched some to do in the future. Loved his enthusiasm for learning!