Summer Semester Begins
June 16th thru August 22nd
Early Enrollment will close May 1st.
(An additional 15% will be added thereafter)
SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS
Our after school social skills groups are for old and new comers. Coursework includes curriculum drawn from Michelle Garcia-Winner’s Social Thinking©, Mel Levine’s Schools Attuned© & Social Cue Cards from Talking Playhouse’s “A Visual World©.” Activities including team based projects, outings, team building, theater games, etc.
New families: please see below for registration process.
Closed Friday July 4th and Monday July 7th
| Title & Time |
Age |
Days |
Description |
SOCIAL
PLAYHOUSE PRESCHOOL
&
Parent
Training:
How
To Navigate A Successful Social World For Your Child
11:15-12:45
Session
I: 6/16-6/27
Session II: 6/30-7/11 |
4-5 |
M-F |
This is a discovery course in social engagement using structured play. Students will learn the fundamentals of SocialThinking© Michelle G.Winner© vocabulary, RDI© and other related social skills methodologies to build an arsenal of pragmatic language and behaviors to better navigate their social world.
Parent Training is designed to give parents a crash course in perspective taking vocabulary and positive parenting practices to achieve social success. It will include an overview of information to ensure school success and a sneak peek into challenges down the road both, academically and socially. We will demystification many of the areas related to social cognitive challenges.
Minimum
2 weeks required. |
KINDERGARTEN
SOCIAL SKILLS
&
Parent Training:
How To Facilitate Playdates All Summer To Enhance Kindergarten Readiness Skills How To Work With Teachers To Maximize Social School Success.
Parent Training will include Kindergarten Readiness information as well.
9:30-11:00
Session
I: 6/16-6/27
Session
II: 6/30-7/11
Session III: 7/14-7/25 |
Kinders |
M-F |
Students will learn the key “Social Thinking©” social language from Michelle G. Winner’s program to build perspective taking skills and problem solving techniques. Students will partake in creating a detective game, play a variety of team activities, participate in mini theatrical vignettes and make their own video shows to improve their ability to read other people’s nonverbal language, advance their reciprocity skills and utilize problem solving tactics successfully with their peers.
This intensive parent training program for school and home is designed to create tools that help you achieve target behaviors successfully.
Parents will learn how to use positive parenting discipline skills with “Social Thinking©” language to improve their child’s self esteem and obtain goal behaviors. We will give you a sneak peek into challenges down the road, both academically and socially for kindergarten and first grade as well as general demystification of areas related to social cognitive challenges.
Minimum
2 weeks required. |
Social Camp 1-4th |
|
TBD |
Please send an email with your child’s grade and “TBD” in the subject for more information. |
Humor-Me!
Comedy Workshop
June 16-Aug 18
and 7/23
(no class 8/7) |
8-14 |
Wed
3:30
-5:00 |
This course is designed to teach students appropriate humor. Students will learn simple tricks on “how to be funny” and what the value of “timing” is. They will make their own “stand up” comedy video and attend comedy related events dependent upon scheduling in the bay area. This course is specifically designed for students who want to use humor but have challenges with timing, perspective taking, content, and gestalt thinking. |
WRITING SENSIBILITIES
This is a “must take” course for students with imagery,
abstract thinking & Executive Functioning challenges.
11:15
|
4th-6th Grade |
M-F |
“Writing Sensibilities” is a workshop to help students become competent, happy writers and better social partners. We will use specific techniques, customized for students with abstract thinking and EF challenges, to comprehend more of what they read in order to facilitate their writing and conversation. Our visual tools are specifically designed to understand these challenges and to guide students systematically through the laborious process of abstract thinking and reasoning.
Our goal is to improve the executive functioning and abstract thinking processes needed to produce written work successfully. We will use tools such as Inspiration© software, customized visual webs created specifically for the mind that is challenged by abstract and organizational thinking. The concepts taught in this course will help students with their Executive Functioning skills--a suite of cognitive abilities needed to improve social skills, conversational skills, reading, writing and expressive language.
Occasional Saturday workshops for augmentative help will be offered.
Pick one
week from each track A & B (courses within a track are
redundant so pick only one from each)
Track A: 7/28, 8/11
Track B: 8/18, 8/25
Must attend min. 2 weeks |
| READING
FOR SUCCESS: Visualizing
& Abstract Comprehension LindamoodBell's©Verbalizing & Visualizing©
Enhance your child’s
ability to comprehend reading and retain social strategies.
1:00-2:30
Grades 3rd - Middle School |
|
Mondays |
LindamoodBell© Visualizing &
Verbalizing©
Enhance your child’s ability to use abstract thinking, key skills needed for comprehension, and to set up their reading for successful writing! This course will incorporate tools that help in visualizing imagery that is imperative to retain social strategies.
This course incorporates the LindamoodBell© program with a customized companion curriculum designed by The Talking Playhouse© to incorporate challenges and subject material pertinent for students with social cognitive challenges.
Requirement: the final week of your enrollment must be in one of the “Follow Up” courses (F).
This course will have a follow up course in the Fall on Tuesdays at 4:45 to reinforce concepts learned and enhance reading skills throughout the year. Limited to 6 students.
6/23, 6/30, 7/8 (tues.), 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/11 F, 8/18 F
Must attend 6 out of 7 weeks.
Price varies depending upon group size
($60-85.00 per session)
Must attend two parent training TBD |
My Social World – Teens
Fridays 3:00-5:00 |
|
|
This course combines a variety of methodologies for social success such as Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits for Teens©, Michelle G.Winner’s Social Thinking© language, Mel Levine’s Schools Attuned© taught in a team-based, fun filled social activities including cooking parties, hiking, geo-cashing, science and invention and more! Concepts learned will include problem solving, enhancing perspective taking skills, reading nonverbal cues, understanding social nuances, understanding the “subtext” of communication. |
ORGANIZATIONAL
SKILLS
& STRATEGIES
FOR
SCHOOL & HOME
9:30 - 11 |
|
M-F
|
This course focuses on setting up, or fine tuning strategies & systems for organizing the student at school. We will build executive functioning skills re: time management, sequencing, navigating the big picture (gestalt thinking), and identifying how to solve the organizational challenges. This course will have a follow up full semester course on Fridays in the Fall at 3:30. Limited to 6 students.
8/18, 8/26
Two
weeks.
Supplies
for course extra. Training sessions required. Time-TBD. |
Early Enrollment will close May 1st,
an additional 15% will be added thereafter. |
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***If you are a new family, you need to make a “meet and greet” appointment by 5/1 in order to find the best match for your child. Appointments for new families will be on Tuesdays from 4:45–6:45 and Saturdays. Appointments are 30minutes, $64.00. Please email “M&G” in title and include the information requested on the website. Please bring your child, the application and a picture for our files. Your appt. will be confirmed when you get a reply with an application to bring with you.
PARENT TRAINING
This is a key component to your child's success. Every session provides parent training the last 10-20 minutes of the day. A social language vocabulary list is also provided.
PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATION
STEP ONE: |
- Send an email with Application/your child's last name/age in the subject.
- Please provide:
- diagnosis (if any and by whom)
- current therapies (and w/whom)
- has any testing that has been done in the last 12 months, by whom and what actions did you take based on results/suggestions from the practitioner/or team?
- are you in an IEP program?
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STEP TWO: |
We will contact you either by email or phone. If you receive an email, it will have "application" in the title and it will be attached. You can download to your desktop and fill in electronically to email back or hard mail back. If you email be sure to save the doc to your hardrive b/f you start working on it with your child's name. Any info filled out while it's in your email program will be lost. SAVE TO YOUR HARDRIVE FIRST. |
STEP THREE: |
We will set up a time for you to come in for a 30m appt. to gather baseline data in order to appropriately match your child. Fee: $55.00. Longer appointments and/or assessment may be scheduled at that time. We do have a 24 hr. cancellation policy BY PHONE. We apologize but we do not have "make ups" for group sessions. |
NEW BILLING POLICY:
Available by request: forms for insurance companies. Parent fills in dates, return and we sign and date.
Please note: Our apologies but there are no make-ups in group sessions. |
Please note that class enrollment is based on a first come first served basis and compatible matching; size of group is limited. All deposits are non-refundable. Before sending in checks please make sure the following have occurred:
- You have sent back your social skills questionnaire, if applying for
social groups.
- If applying for a speech or language therapy and/or groups, fill out the first part of this application only.
- You have spoken to a Talking Playhouse therapist to review your child’s background & ensure a space. Once you have been given a verbal approval, you may then proceed with payment. There are no makeups, refunds or rescheduling for missed days for the social group sessions. Balance due first day of session. Cancellations for private/dyad/evaluations sessions, other than group programs require a 24 hour notice.
The Talking Playhouse is ‘A Place for Social Learning' for speech and language therapy services with an emphasis in Social Skills or, what we call in the vernacular, Social Pragmatic Language . While we emphasize Social Skills, we also provide traditional speech and language services for articulation, voice, fluency and language.
We are committed to helping change your child's social language destiny with early intervention to set the stage for future communication. Social awareness and the language needed to foster it , is at the focal point of our program. It is not an instinctive ability for many of the children we see. We are dedicated to providing a fun, creative, humor-driven environment that children from preschool age to late teens enjoy participating in.
Every child has something to communicate yet many of them do not have the framework to communicate what they need. We focus on pro-social behavioral intervention and positive redirection to help reduce the frustration and difficulty that is often accompanied with communication difficulty.
We believe in the interdisciplinary team approach and therefore provide related services in occupational therapy, physical therapy, behavioral intervention, art and music therapy and psychology services.
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