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Interactive Metronome
Feeding Therapy
Speech Easy
Social Language Groups
Summer Scholars
Handwriting Without Tears
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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF
FRIENDSHIPS
We offer a variety of peer groups to help
children, ages preschool through middle school,
develop social relationships. Our BUILDING
BLOCKS OF FRIENDSHIPS program is offered to
children who would benefit from direct
instruction with developing and maintaining
social relationships in their academic, home and
social environments. The curriculum-based groups
are conducted by a Speech-Language Pathologist.
Previous participants have demonstrated
increased frequency of play dates and social
connections with children outside the group,
improved appropriate emotional responses, as
well as decreased impulsivity and rigidity
during classroom and household transitions.
Typical skills addressed during sessions include
but are not limited to: social greetings,
identifying level of body activity, dealing with
bullying and teasing, identifying and expressing
emotions, initiating, maintaining and ending
conversations, joining and participating in
groups, and appropriate body language and tone
of voice.
Enrollees include children with Attention
Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum
Disorder including Asperger’s Syndrome,
Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder,
Non-Verbal Learning Disability, Speech-Language
Impairments including pragmatic language, and
any other medical, psychological or behavioral
impairment that may interrupt the natural
development of social skills.
When forming friendship groups, age and present
level of friendship skills will be the most
important factor in deciding which group will
best meet your child’s social needs. The groups
are conducted on a semester basis and convene
for 11 sessions during each semester: Fall,
Spring and Summer. Each session is 1-hour and
30-minutes which allows time for instruction,
role playing and practicing each skill taught
during the session. Your child will take home
worksheets used during the sessions to
facilitate generalization of each social concept
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