SOCIAL GROUPS
Kids Connect offers social play groups designed to help preschoolers and early elementary age children develop and refine peer interaction, communication, and play skills. Instruction is thematically based on developmental milestones to foster a fun and enjoyable learning environment! Small group instruction allows for individualized attention, peer interaction, support, and par
ent consultation. For most children, basic social skills (e.g., turn-taking, initiating conversation) are acquired quickly and easily. For children with ASD and other developmental disorders, however, social skills often need to be taught explicitly, and not simply by exposure to social situations. Social skills instruction for these children need to be guided in a systematic hierarchy at an early age in order to establish a foundation for them to build upon. Social skills intervention often begins with developing basic turn-taking routines, expanding gestures, and establishing joint attention. Later on, children may engage in activities regarding expressing thoughts and feelings, maintaining conversation, reading social stories, and role-playing. This direct and specific social skills instruction is currently missing from the variety of therapeutic services offered. Kids Connect develops social skills groups, based not only on diagnosis, but developmental and chronological age as well. Organizing groups this way will ensure the effectiveness of the teaching, as interactions will be presented at their current level of functioning. INDIVIDUAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
We provide individual therapy sessions for children with delays in articulation, phonology, receptive and expressive language, language processing, and narrative development. Experience working with children with Developmental Disabilities, Language Delays, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Apraxia, and more. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE EVALUATIONS
We provide comprehensive written evaluations to detail children's speech and language profile, strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations.
