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See schedule below
Early Enrollment will close May 1st, Save $150.00
Social Skills Groups, Writers' Workshops, Lindamood Bell's©
Verbalizing & Visualing©, Organizational Life©, Parent Consultation,
Social Skills/Speech & Language Assessments, Positive Behavior Planning
Children to Adults
The Talking Playhouse, A Place for Social Learning offers therapeutic training for adults, children and their parents to develop skills and/or retrain how we use our social skills, how we think socially, how we organize our thinking to shape our work, environment and social engagements. And, how we enhance our ability to cultivate and manage abstract thinking during writing and social pragmatic language interactions.
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©," theater transformational and sensory techniques to enhance role playing rehearsals and other evidenced-based techniques to increase social cognition. Activities including team based projects, outings, team building exercises, theater games, etc. The Talking Playhouse works with school districts to train staff who may be working with children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, Asperger's, ADHD and High Functioning Autism.
New families: If you are a new family, please make a “meet and greet” appointment by 5/15 in order to find the best match for your child. Summer is a popular time at the Playhouse largely because we cover so much in a short amount of time to help families prepare for the next school year’s social and academic challenges. Please see below schedule grid for details.
Scheduling is flexible with a two week minimum. We encourage families to do two weeks back to back if possible. Please note the recommended sessions can be split up, if need be. Middle & High School & Writing classes are one time weekly. Groups are 90 minute sessions: $105.00 (summer price only.) All classes are conducted by a therapist with specialization in Social Cognitive Therapy.
Please see below for registration process.
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TIME |
TITLE |
AGE |
Description |
M,W,TH |
11:00-
12:30 |
Growing the Social Brain:
Pre-School Intensive
Includes Kinder-Readiness
Parent Training:
How To Facilitate Playdates All Summer To Enhance Kindergarten Readiness Skills
How To Work With Teachers To Maximize Social School Success. |
PRE-K
Ages: 3-4
Ages: 4-5 |
Social Skills Play, Games & Building This is a discovery & continuing course for those that want more in social engagement using structured play. Students will learn the fundamentals of Social Thinking© Michelle Garcia Winner© vocabulary, RDI©, problem-solving strategies and other related social skills methodologies to build an arsenal of pragmatic language, behaviors and systems 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. |
T,W,TH |
9:00-
10:30 |
Camp “P.S.”
Problem-Solving
-Building Social-Emotional Skills:
Learn to self regulate via Pragmatic Language & Sensory Techniques |
Ages:
6.5 - 8
Older ages
available upon
request |
This course has been uniquely designed for kids with social-emotional regulation challenges and will incorporate a variety of proven methodologies for problem-solving. all in a fun, activities-driven atmosphere from Star Wars© & Legos© and Art to community outings.
Parent Training includes tools to take home and methodologies for playdates, challenging social situations, & behavioral systems to succeed at home with. |
M,W,TH |
1:30-
3:00 |
Growing the Social Brain:
Preparing for
1st Grade |
5.5 - 6.5
year olds |
Students will learn the key “Social Thinking©” social language from Michelle G. Winner’s program to build perspective taking skills and problem solving techniques.
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.
Parent Training included. |
1st-4th grades
1x Weekly
Send email for dates |
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Social Detective Camp |
1st-4th
Grades
(grouped by
grade)
3rd grade
social
& academic
prep
will be
Included
for new
3rd graders |
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.
Parent Training included. |
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MON |
3:30 |
Social Connection
Project-based social skills via theater games, outings & project-building activities
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Middle
&
High School |
What to do with your preteens & teens this summer? Brush up their social skills in a project based social-learning environment. The students will choose what projects to work on together. Projects may include filmmaking, game making, comic book making, small business development (create your own video game company, restaurant or lab), etc. The course will emphasize theater games and how to use social skills to connect to others be it during project time or on our community outings.
Optional: Depending upon age of the group, we may address activities of independent living goals as well.
Parent Training included. |
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WED
|
3:30-
5:00 |
Writing Sensibilities
with
Lindamood Bell’s© Visualizing & Verbalizing©
Enhance image memory, writing & abstract thinking
This is a “must take” course for students
with imagery,
abstract thinking & Executive Functioning challenges.
6 sessions minimum |
3rd -4th grade
4th - 5th grade |
“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.
Price varies depending upon group size
($60-85.00 per hour)
Must attend two additional parent training TBD.
If you are interested in a 2-week-long intensive v. 1x all summer, plz. indicate. |
Friday and/or Saturday
By appt.
Min. 6 sessions |
Flex
Scheduling |
ORGANIZATIONAL WORKSHOP |
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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. Limited to 6 students.
Parent Training included.
If you are interested in a 2-week-long intensive v. 1x all summer, plz. indicate. |
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TBD |
Flex
Scheduling |
Girls Just
Wanna Have
Social Fun! |
2 Tracks:
3-5 grade
&
Middle School |
This social workshop will take place all over the Bay Area and emphasize social behavior in the real world. It also may include project based activities such as creating a business or game. The students will decide on the project. Theater games will also be a part of this curriculum.
Price varies depending upon group size ($60-85.00 per hour) |
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New families: Please email info@talkingplayhouse after you read about The Talking Playhouse schedule. Email with "M&G" in subject of your email for a brief, 30 minute meet and greet appointment . Please include the information requested on the website. Please bring your child, the application, reports and a picture for our files.
This is a key component to your child's success. Every session provides 30-35% parent training at the end. This is a daily-practice intensive curriculum and parents are provided with tools to help with generalization of skills. of the day. A social language vocabulary list is also provided.
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 HARD DRIVE FIRST. |
STEP THREE: |
We will set up a time for you to come in for a 30m appt. to gather information to appropriately match your child. Fee: $64.00. Longer appointments and/or an assessment may be scheduled at that time. We do have a 24 hr. cancellation policy BY PHONE. |
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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