Observation In Ms. Robinson's Speech Therapy Class

I performed three observations in Ms. Robinson’s speech therapy class. Ms. Robinson pulls different students from their classes to join her for a 30-minute session. The children do not attend a session every day. The first group of students I observed was two boys. The boys came into class and picked a game for them to play. They decided on playing jenga. They took turns playing the game. After they took a turn, Ms. Robinson would have them do something having to do with the lesson. One boy had to read a story out loud to Ms. Robinson. While he was taking his turn, the other boy was supposed to hold a casual conversation. He struggled with it so Ms. Robinson tried to help him by asking him questions. He still struggled with using elaborate answers. He was not using his r’s so Ms. Robinson eventually just had to ask him to say some words with r’s in them. the boys continued playing the game while also taking turn working on their specific areas of improvement.

Ms. Robinson and the student worked on increasing his descriptive writing. Ms. Robinson used a visual and tactile aid to help the student better grasp the steps to being more descriptive. The aid was a worm with different colored balls on it “body parts.” The parts stood for different questions the student could ask. Some of the questions were “What is it made of? Where does it come from? What color is it? When do you use it? What kind of object is it? What group does it come from?” Ms. Robinson used an apple to go through the different parts of the worm with the student. Then she asked him to do it with a banana. After the student went through the worm, it was time for him to return to his normal