Groups
Groups offer children opportunities for building motor and social skills. Peer interaction is an important part of a child’s overall development. Our staff understands that although participating in groups in the community can be challenging for children, it is an important skill. Therefore, we offer the following groups:
Summer Group
We are excited to be offering Camp Milestones for our upcoming summer session. Camp Milestones will be open to kids ages three and up for all skill levels. We will be holding Camp Milestones over the course of 10 weeks. Camp Days will occur one time per week for a 90 minute session.
Camp participants will engage in a variety of
activities led by a therapist focusing on having fun and interacting with peers. The camp’s weekly activities will include themes of soccer, basketball, cooking, arts and crafts, music, yoga, baseball, and other playground activities. At each session children will participate in both structured and unstructured plat schemes that encourage social interaction and skill building. Each camp will consist of 4-6 kids. Please check out the following groups for your child!
Milestones Monkeys
This group is designed to provide children with an opportunity to interact
socially with their peers while engaging in a variety of play schemes. For
participation in this group it is recommended that children are able to follow simple directions, attend to a single activity for a period of 5-10 minutes, show interest in interacting with peers, effectively communicate wants and needs, and walk independently. Recommended ages for this group are 3 – 5 years old.
Camp Critters
This group is designed to provide children with an
opportunity to interact socially with their peers while
expanding on play schemes. For participation in this group it is recommended that children are able to follow multi-step directions, attend to a single activity for a period of 10 – 15 minutes, show interest in interacting with peers, and
beginning to demonstrate running and coordination skills. Recommended ages for this group are 6 -8 years old.
Summer Stars
This group is designed to provide children with an opportunity to interact socially with their peers while teaching the rules of sports and games. For participation in this group it is recommended that children are able to sequence directions and required movements to complete a given activity,
attend to an activity for a period of 15 – 20 minutes, show interest in interacting with peers and engaging in cooperative activities such as sports, and demonstrate ability to run and coordinate gross motor movements. Recommended ages for this group are 9 and up.
Snack Time
This group is held at Milestones and incorporates a therapeutic meal into "Snack Time." This group is appropriate for children who have limited variety or volume of foods in their diet or other oral-motor or sensory concerns that interfere with feeding. Staffed by an occupational therapist and a speech/language pathologist, this group can assist in expanding a child's diet incorporating the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approach.
Please call for information regarding this group.
Handwriting Without Tears
This group is a developmentally based curriculum for writing readiness and printing. This program utilizes a multi-sensory approach in every lesson in order to reinforce all learning styles including visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. The Milestones "Handwriting Without Tears" group provides children with strategies to learn correct letter formation in a consistent and easy-to-understand manner using child-friendly terminology and many opportunities for practice and repetition. The unique materials used with this approach help to eliminate problems with letter formation, reversals, legibility, and sentence spacing.
This group is not currently being offered. Please contact us if interested.
How Does Your Engine Run?
The Alert Program for Self-Regulation adapted from Williams and Shellenberger
This group program assists children in learning how to monitor, maintain, and change their level of arousal so that it is appropriate to a given situation or task. Learning self-regulation in a small group setting offers participants a unique opportunity to improve peer interactions and develop strategies that will help them in all areas of their lives. This 10-week program is run by occupational therapists and is appropriate for children ages 5-10 years old.
This group is not currently being offered. Please contact us if interested.
Come Play with Me
Designed for pre-school and early elementary-aged children, the "Come Play with Me" group helps children learn appropriate social skills in order to initiate and sustain play with peers. This group is staffed by an occupational therapist and a speech/language pathologist, and stresses appropriate use of social cues for peer interaction while allowing for learning through sensory-based play.
This group is not currently being offered. Please contact us if interested.
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