<p style=”text-align: left;”>My older son had 2.5 years of speech therapy and my younger son 1.5 years.</p>
I am not quite understanding what your daughters speech therapist is doing. She wants your daughter to find the specific meaning in a story? My boys would often have stories read to them and then they would talk about what they read as the therapist worked on specific sounds, such as looking at the page and pointing to something specific to say such as “red scarf” when working on “r” sounds. They would not have to tell what a story meant, but often retold the stories.
My boys therapy really revolved around talking and having conversations while tying in the challenging sounds and improving skills. Often they would play board games or other types of games and the therapist would tie in the learning to keep it fun and emcpuraging.
Specific “who” questions can be challenging. Open ended questions such as “what did you remember about what the girl did in the story?” leaves a lot more variety of answers available for the student to pull from because the little girl from the story might have gone for a walk, saw a bird on her walk, or made it home in time for dinner (story dependent for answers).
Also watching my boys in speech therapy for so long, they are thinking so hard about saying things correctly that getting the words out was sometimes hard, why their therapists did so much in the form of play because it was more relaxed and less pressure.
Not sure if that helps or not.
