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Social Skills Groups |
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Providing
your child with both a helpful boost - and a leg up. Enrolling your
child in a Social Skills Group will help nurture and develop their
abilities to interact more harmoniously with their friends,
teachers, and siblings, in your home, in school and other social
situations. The compelling and important skills learned in this
class will help your child succeed and will enable them to feel more
confident and less frustrated.
Created by
Dr. Rene and two Nationally Certified School Psychologists, Barbara
Evans and Madhuri Ralph, the Social Skills Group is offered as
either an 8-week or 16-week
program designed to improve your child’s ability to:
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Identify,
manage and communicate emotions in healthy and respectful manner
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Improve
listening skills
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Foster
better impulse control and appropriate manners
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Learn to
share and take turns
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Develop play
skills
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Improve
friendships
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Understand
causes and consequences of emotions
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Negotiate and manage conflict
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Make
decisions and follow directions
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Understand
and deal with anger and aggression
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Participate
in competition by being a good sport, learning to win and lose
Click here
to view the syllabus for both the 8-week and 16-week programs.
The
classes are fun and interactive. Children will have weekly homework
activity to complete with parents to reinforce what they learn in
class. Activities include movement games, art activities, puppet
shows and story time to teach the weekly topic.
Age
Requirement – your child must be at least three years old, and no
older than nine years old, when beginning the Social Skills Group.
Classes are held for 3- to 4-year-olds, 5- to 6-year-olds, and 7- 9-year-olds.
The curriculum is modified to be age appropriate.
The cost of
this program is $40 per class, $160 per month. Space is limited to
12 children per class with two psychologist instructors and one or
two preschool teachers.
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Social Skills Group Locations, Days and Times |
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Alexandria Location
Click the button below
to view the current Social Skills Groups schedule and enroll in the
program
2010 - 2011 School
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Falls Church Location
Click the button below
to view the current Social Skills Groups schedule and enroll in the
program
2010 - 2011 School
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Social Skills Groups Summer Camp |
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Based on our popular
Social Skills Groups, we've designed a one-week Summer Camp Session
for 4 - 9 year olds.
This is available at both our Alexandria and Falls Church locations
this summer.
Join us July 19th -
23rd in Falls Church OR July 26th-30th in Alexandria.
We are going to focus all activities on school readiness. This
includes making and keeping friends, joining play, listening,
participating in discussions, turn taking, waiting patiently and
more. While the children will be hard at work and learning new
skills, they will be having FUN! They will be learning through
movement games, art projects, board games, read alouds, circle
times, puppets shows, role plays and open play.
Space is limited to 12 children in each group. This 7.5 hour, 5 day
program will be run by two psychologists and a teacher. The cost is
$300 (based on $40 per hour).
Please visit our
Camps
page for more information or to enroll.
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manners boot camp |
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Get ready
to learn some manners!
Dr. Rene will lead a fun
filled morning of art projects, a movement game, story time, a puppet
show, board game and more, all designed to teach and practice manners.
Snack will be served while
practicing good table manners, of course!
This class is open to
children 4 to 9 years old. Children will be divided into working
groups by age.
Cost for this one-day camp
is $40 for the first child and $26 for each sibling. Space is
limited to 20 children with four teachers.
The Manners Boot Camp
meets once on Saturday from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm.
Click
here for upcoming Manners Boot Camp
dates.
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