Tyler Lee TS#4 Child

March 23

This session was distinctly difficult and I'm not sure if it was because Andy had a long day, because he is six years old, or both. When Kyoungbo left, Andy was acting particularly shy and would only answer me with sounds when I asked him a question or tried speaking with him. I was finally able to solicit a response when I suggested that we use his colored pencils to do some of his homework (that did actually require the use of colored pencils). The direction for the homework exercise was to color the picture of every object that started with K and the exercise quickly devolved into color scribbles and sparsely-worded responses to any attempt I tried at coaxing meaningful speech production from him. Eventually, I suggested that we try to write some sentences that use adjectives to describe something, but Andy refused to do anything that resembled work and insisted on drawing only. At this point I stopped Andy and told him that we needed to put the pencils away if he wasn't able to use them and work with me at the same time; the rest of the session consisted of me trying to talk to him and facilitate speech production while keeping him from trying to take his pencils out again. When I suggested we read a book, Andy just wanted to look at the pictures and did not have any desire to attempt to read any words. Needless to say, this session was very frustrating and a bit enlightening for me. I told Kyoungbo about the experience and that it would be best to leave the pencils at home next time.