Help! In terms of speech therapy, what is a

[Tiggiwinkle]

We have been given some exercises to do with DS (aged 7, AS) by the speech therapist. One of them involves identifying various words from a "stimulus word". ( 3 "Target words",1 "phonological distractor", 3 "unrelated distractors" and 1 "semantic distractor")
One of the examples has the word "bath" as the stimulus; towel, tap and wash as the targets; path as the phonological distractor; ladder, pen and purse as unrelated distractors; and "light" as the semantic distractor. But we cannot see why? What exactly is a sematic distractor?
Sorry for such a boring question-we cannot ask the therapist as she did the assessment, identified some problems which these exercises are to help with, but will apparently not be seeing him again unless re-referred.

Sorry-end of title was cut off! Supposed to read "What is a semantic distractor"?

Ring her up and ask her to talk in English. This is absolute gobbledigook to anyone who isn't a speech therapist and she should realise that nobody understands her buzzwords. What a waste of public money! I am sure 99% of people who see her and get an assessment just stare at it blankly for a while, then put it away and do nothing. I think I'm a clever, educated person and I wouldn't know where to start with that, frankly. She needs to know she is incomprehensible.

Thanks Sorrell-I like to think I an one too (a clever and well-educated person that is!) but I thought perhaps I was being a bit dense here. I will
contact her and ask for an explanation.