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Achieve is now accepting applications for social skills groups and social/play groups.
Social Skills Groups:
- Ages 5 years and up
- Adolescent groups
- 4 to 6 children in a group
- Interviews are conducted to ensure appropriate
"groupings" of children
- Some of the social skills addressed include: greetings,
eye contact, personal space, cooperating, appropriate behavior,
feelings, conversation skills, friendship skills
- The groups are one hour in length and run for 14 weeks
in the spring and fall and 4 – 8 weeks in the summer.
Social/Play Groups:
Ages 3 years and 4 years
Interviews are conducted to ensure appropriate
"pairings" or "groupings" of children
2 to 3 children in a group
Focus on eye contact, greetings, turn taking, sharing,
appropriate interaction, appropriate play skills
Skills are targeted through conversation, play, games,
arts and crafts activities, music and movement activities, and snack
activities
For more information, contact Achieve at (704)708-8314
or....
Speech and language services available at Achieve for the following:
- Autism
- Verbal apraxia (Kaufman and PROMPT trained)
- Fluency/stuttering (Certified through the Stuttering Foundation)
- Phonological/Articulation
- Swallowing/Feeding
- Auditory processing
- Voice disorders
- Down Syndrome and other congenital disorders
- Social language disorders
Occupational therapy services offered at Achieve include treatment
to address:
- All subtypes of Sensory Processing Disorder using a sensory
integrative approach to treatment including intervention and
educational techniques like Therapeutic Listening, "The
Alert Program for Self-Regulation: How Does Your Engine Run?",
movement activities to address visual, vestibular, tactile, and
proprioceptive processing, oral motor strategies, and individualized
Sensory Diets for home, school, and community
- Motor planning and postural disorders using movement approaches like
Brain Gym, Yoga for children, and intensive core strengthening
programs.
- Fine motor skills
- Visual motor skills
- Visual perceptual skills
- Self-care skills and activities of daily living
- Handwriting and handwriting difficulties using the Handwriting
Without Tears curriculum along with a variety of other
sensory-motor based teaching methods, tools, and strategies