Out & About: Helping Kids Achieve Social Success
- Is for older elementary students with high functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Asperger’s disorder, or a social/pragmatic language impairment
- Is a group social-communication experience
- Is designed to improve communication and peer interaction skills in children who exhibit difficulty with social skills.
The Out & About program combines structured pragmatic language therapy with fun experiences and community outings so children have opportunities to practice their communication skills.
- Location: Callier Center Richardson
- Ages: elementary school-aged children
- Days/times:
Thursdays 3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
- Sessions:
January 24, 2013 - April 18, 2013
- Insurance eligible program
- Contact: Melissa Cooprider
The Language Group at Callier Center in Richardson
- Is for elementary-age children who have a language disorder
- Provides engaging and purposeful activities to enable children to learn and practice new language comprehension and expression strategies
- Offers an opportunity to interact with other children during whole-group language activities, such as cooking and science experiments
- Offers small-group time designed to focus on the child’s targeted language goals.
The Language Group is designed to target receptive and expressive language skills that children in grades 1 - 4 need in order to achieve social and academic success. Goals targeted include categorizing, comparing/contrasting, describing, defining, synonyms/antonyms, analogies, story concepts, telling a personal narrative, sequencing, sentence expansion, and problem solving.
- Location: Callier Center Richardson
- Ages: elementary school-aged children
- Days/times:
Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Sessions:
January 23, 2013 through April 17, 2013
- Insurance eligible program
- Contact: Melissa Cooprider
Y.E.S.S. (Youth Experience Stuttering Support)
Y.E.S.S., a support group for school-age children who stutter, is eager to welcome new participants! The group is led by certified, licensed speech-language pathologists with the support of graduate student clinicians. Parents are asked to also attend. The group is designed to:
- Help children who stutter learn more about stuttering, realize they are not alone, feel good about themselves and have fun.
- Assist parents of children who stutter by providing education, emotional support and a sense of empowerment.
- Facilitate communication between children who stutter and their parents as they face the challenge of stuttering.
- Location: Callier Center Richardson
- Ages: 6-13 years
- Days/Times: Last Thursday of each month from 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (except December)
- Contact: Molly Augustine
