“No, that’s MY toy”, “But I don’t WANT to share”, “Gimme that!” These are all phrases and sayings that we’ve heard at some point, whether it is from our own kids or from other kids on the playground. Whichever the case might be, it doesn’t make for positive interaction between kids. Social skills group at Pediatric Therapy Associates targets children developing the skills the need to make friends and have positive social interactions.
Led by our speech and language pathologist, our social skills group aims to develop and improve pragmatic and social language skills, social competence, and positive social interactions with peers. Children are able to further their ability to make friends, have positive social interactions, and participate in more social and community activities.
What’s a parent to do if you don’t see your junior master the skills for confident and fluent handwriting? Even in our age of technology the skills that make for good handwriting closely relate to success at school. Reaches shows that good handwriting correlated with academic success.
Our Handwriting Success group is led by occupational therapist further certified in Handwriting Without Tears.
Our group utilizes multi-sensory resources and hands-on training to instill a strong foundation for printing and cursive along with lifelong good habits for writing. Parents rave about our camp, just ask Aiden’s mom, “It was nice to have an answer for parents who are concerned about their child's handwriting. Aidan enjoyed your class very much. Thank you!”
If you want the best, you’ve got to go with iLs. Our Music therapy group that utilizes Integrated Listening Systems, along with therapeutic and Brain Gym exercises, works well to improve the skills for attention, learning and sensory and motor performance skills. The iLs system is a therapeutic training device that relies on the user’s auditory, visual, and tactile systems to improve brain functioning. The iLs system helps “retrain” parts of the brain that are involved with communicating, moving, and learning. In combination with physical, visual, and tactile stimuli, the iLs system works to improve neurological pathways that aid in learning and processing information. Dr. Lalani is passionate helping children and derives lot of pleasure seeing them succeed. “They have to have good attention and learning skills to do well and you have to understand well how the brain works.” you may catch her say.
