Social Skills Group
Led by Leaps and Bounds professional Occupational and Speech Therapists
Our Social Skills group is for children ages 2-8, focusing on fun group activities to work on the following goals:
- Develop social skills
- Make friends
- Enhance team work
- Improve self confidence
- Improve communications, verbal and nonverbal
Ready Set WRITE!
Led by Leaps and Bounds professional Occupational Therapists
Ready Set WRITE! is a pre-handwriting program for preschoolers who are having difficulty mastering prewriting skills such as:
- Holding writing utensil
- Imitating simple lines and shapes
- Drawing a simple person
- Directionality concepts such as up and down
- Finger and hand strength
- Using a pincer grasp to pick up small objects such as Legos, etc.
- Completing activities that require use of both hands and fine motor skills.
Help your child get prepared for Kindergarten. The focus will be on hand strengthening, object manipulation, core body strength, shoulder strength and stability, fine motor coordination, dexterity, and the development of handedness. Activities will be fun and rewarding and your child will enjoy learning in our playful atmosphere. Parents will be provided with play based activities they can do at home to enhance their child's progress.
Write ON!
Led by Leaps and Bounds professional Occupational Therapists
Write On! is a group handwriting program for children entering Kindergarten and first grade that are having difficulty with handwriting and pre-handwriting skills such as:
- Letter formation
- Pressing too hard or not hard enough
- Pencil grasp
- Endurance
- Orientation of letters and words
- Tracing and copying
- Placement of letters and words on the lines
Write On! is a multi-sensory approach to help your child improve their handwriting and get them ready for the coming school year. The focus will be on developing the building blocks of handwriting consisting of: core strengthening, hand strengthening, fine motor coordination, balance and posture, in-hand manipulation, visual tracking, pencil grip, letter formation, and sequencing. This class will consist of group games and activities in a fun and rewarding environment.
Helping Hands
Led by Leaps and Bounds professional Occupational Therapists
Helping Hands is an individualized handwriting program for children entering 1st through 6th grade and have the following difficulties:
- Complain of fatigue when writing
- Have messy papers
- Poor legibility
- Resists writing tasks
- Inconsistent size of letter
- Difficulty with letter and word spacing
- Problems completing assignments in a timely fashion
- Have a poor pencil grip
Helping Hands is a 12 week multi sensory intensive occupational therapy service to help your child improve their handwriting. The sessions are once a week for 45 minutes with the remaining 5-10 minutes to discuss progress with at-home activities. The first session will evaluate your child's handwriting using the ETCH, which is a standardized test. The following 4 sessions will focus on strength, balance, and posture for 30 minutes with the last 15 minutes of the session focusing on handwriting activities. Sessions 6 through 11 will focus on 6 major components that affect your child's handwriting skills. At each session the occupation therapist will teach the child and parents activities to improve the specific areas the child needs to work on. In session 12 the ETCH will be administered again to determine improvements.
It is imperative to the program that the child is serious about improving their handwriting. The child and parents are expected to practice the activities throughout the week and keep a journal of their improvements. The parents must participate in the home based activities to help make it fun and not just work.
Little Leaps
Led by a Leaps and Bounds Speech-Language Pathologist/Preschool teacher
Developed for children 2 years old with mild to moderate developmental delay.
This parent/tot class will offer fun play based activities that will increase your child's readiness to participate in a traditional classroom setting by working on skills in the following areas:
- Language development
- Social skills
- Fine motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Sensory motor skills
Little Leaps is designed to give your child a head start. This program is a supplement to private therapy and ECDD classes offered through the schools. Through this 8-week group session, children will receive four contact hours with a physical therapist, four contact hours with an occupational therapist and twelve contact hours with a speech-language pathologist. Parents will gain knowledge and the resources to help facilitate their child's development.
Big Bounds
Led by Leaps and Bounds Speech-Language Pathologist/Preschool teacher
Developed for children 3-4 years old with mild to moderate developmental delay.
This class will offer fun play based activities that will work on skills in the following areas:
- Language development
- Social skills
- Fine motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Sensory motor skills
- Engagement with peers
- Active participation in a group setting
Big Bounds is designed to increase your child's readiness to participate in a traditional classroom setting. Through this 8-week group session, children will receive four contact hours with a physical therapist, four contact hours with an occupational therapist and sixteen contact hours with a speech-language pathologist.
A screening to assess developmental readiness for this class is required unless your child is a current client of Leaps and Bounds Therapy Services. Please call for you screening.
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