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Eating Watermelon

Social Motor Groups

Groups are developed and based on children's needs and goals.  Social Motor Groups are for children with an emphasis on age appropriate skills needed for improved peer interactions and classroom success.   

 

The following groups are offered:

  • Fun eating

  • Preschool Social Motor Group

  • Kindergarten/1st Grade Readiness

  • School Age Social Motor Group

These group sessions

will target:

  • Social mapping – learn strategy to empower kids and parents to work through various social challenges

  • Take home ideas to promote generalization of learning

  • Peer interactions – entering a group, following group rules, and increasing social flexibility

  • Social pragmatic skills/social attention using Social Thinking curriculum

  • Language development - expressive and receptive

  • Self-regulation strategies – impulse control and emotional regulation; attention to task

  • Problem solving skills

Fun Eating

This group is for children with an emphasis on sensory and oral motor goals as it relates to eating.

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​This helps with:​

  • Expanding food preferences at home and at school

  • Facilitating opportunities for eating lunch at school in expected time frames

  • Sensory, oral motor, and behavioral techniques to address underlying factors contributing to picky eating

  • Opportunities for children to participate in food preparation

  • Social attention

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Preschool Social Motor Group

This group is for preschool age children with an emphasis on foundational skills needed for improved peer interactions and classroom success.

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This helps with:​

  • Language development – expressive and receptive; phonemic awareness; pre-reading development; peer interaction/play

  • Following multi-step directions; staying on task, early sequencing

  • Fine motor development – pre-writing skills, hand strengthening and cutting skills and motor planning

  • Recognizing social cues and following expected behaviors

  • Self-regulation strategies; impulse control; staying with the group

  • Social attention

Kindergarten/
1st Grade Readiness

This group is for children with an emphasis on foundational skills needed for improved peer interactions and classroom success.

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This helps with:​

  • Language development including phonemic awareness, sounding out words and early reading skills

  • Following multi-step directions, age level task completion

  • Self-regulation strategies; impulse control; staying with the group

  • Fine motor skill development – cutting, pencil grip, hand strength

  • Handwriting – number and letter formation; beginning words

  • Gross motor skills – coordination, balance, and core strengthening

  • Social pragmatic skills/ social attention

School Age Social Motor Group

This group is for children with an emphasis on social flexibility required for peer interactions and classroom success.

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This helps with:​

  • Self-regulation strategies; impulse control; staying with the group

  • Social pragmatic skills/ social attention

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