SSSSTop!

Rhys tends to get frustrated at therapy, especially Occupational Therapy.  When he gets that way he tends to get mean, hitting, screaming, standing in the corner and screaming for five minutes.  It's rather unpleasant.

We have been trying to teach him to say "Stop!" and use the sign for it, which is your left hand held flat with the palm up and your right hand coming down, vertically in into it, like a karate chop.  When he says "Stop!" it comes out as "Bop!", which is not always easy to understand when he is angry. 

During speech we work on one letter for two or three weeks then move on to another one.  Estelle (OT) suggested to Sarah (ST) that she teach Rhys leading S's.  "So he can tell us to STOP!".