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Say and Play: Say and play is a group designed to address the language and skills necessary to play more physical games such as the games seen on a playground at school. Activities include eye hand coordination, motor planning skills, bilateral upper extremity games and balance. Activities are designed to encourage social interactions and appropriate peer relations within group games. Children will learn to develop and use the language necessary for initiating, turn taking, joining in, waiting, and conflict resolution. The group is facilitated by a registered occupational therapist and a speech language pathologist.
For children ages 3-6 years |
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Tumble-Tots: This group is designed for children two to four years of age. This group is beneficial for all children however the activities are designed to address concerns in the areas of coordination, low muscle tone, balance, strength and motor planning skills through play and motor activities. The speech pathologist will facilitate appropriate language and social interactions as a foundation for more advanced social/pragmatic skills.
For children ages 2-4 years |
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These groups are designed to target social skills for children who are entering preschool and/or transitioning to kindergarten. Children will have opportunities to practice turn taking skills, commenting, requesting, topic maintenance, maintaining a conversation over several turns. In addition, this group addresses appropriate play and interaction skills. The group is facilitated by two speech language pathologists.
For children ages 3-5 years |
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Facilitated play dates are designed to target social skills for school aged-children. These groups are loosely structured to address real life situations and typically occur within natural environments (home, community, etc.). The goal of facilitated play dates is to provide children with the opportunity to interact with peers in settings that are not contrived. Parents arrange play dates and a therapist will facilitate the play date in a non-invasive manner. These groups are highly effective for children who have difficulty establishing and/or maintaining friendships in school. The group is facilitated by a speech pathologist.
For children ages 5-9 years |
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School Age social groups are designed to target social skills for school-aged children in a center based setting. Children will have opportunities to practice topic maintenance, maintaining conversations over several turns, problem solving skills in social situations, theory of mind, and ways to establish/maintain friendships. The use of video camera footage is employed to engage children in role playing activities as well as provide feedback to children on appropriate social interactions. The group is facilitated by two speech language pathologists.
For children ages 5-10 years |
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Table Top Talk is a fine motor and social language group. The group is designed for children who demonstrate fine motor and social pragmatic weaknesses. The group consists of an occupational therapist and a speech language pathologist. The role of the occupational therapist is to address fine motor skills while the speech language pathologist addresses social interactions skills among peers. The objective of the group is to strengthen both fine motor and social pragmatic skills.
For children 3-10 year |
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Wii-N addresses coordination, bilateral skills, and hand eye coordination while using then Nintendo Wii video game system. This group is great to encourage play skills among peers!
For children 5-10 years old
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