Weekly Activity Groups
Weekly groups are guided by occupational therapists
sometimes with other professionals, to guide children or adults in the development of social skills to achieve personal goals. These goals are established at an initial interview and revised periodically. Groups are based on each participant's age and skill level. Groups include pre-school, elementary school, middle school and high school aged individuals, as well as adults.
--- COLLAGE Partners with The YMCA! ---
COLLAGE is excited to offer social skills sessions each Monday at
The Upper Main Line YMCA in Berwyn.
Starts Monday, March 5th
8-week program
Ages 5 - 7
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ages 8 - 10
5:45 p.m. to 7:15
For more information or to enroll:
610-325-2906
collageotp@aol.com
---New COLLAGE Workshop! ---
Creative Dramatics to
Enhance Social Skills
Two Separate Sessions For Age Groups:
6 to 8 & 9 to 12
At COLLAGE location in Newtown Square
Creative dramatics is a process-centered form of drama in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact and reflect upon human experiences through
role-play, pantomime, movement and sound.
Through informal dramatics activities, students:
Develop communication skills
Improve ensemble skills
Learn to be
empathetic
Develop cooperation skills
Learn to compromise
Targeted skills include movement, dialogue, concentration, problem-solving and critical thinking.
For more information or to enroll:
610-325-2906
collageotp@aol.com
What We Do
We achieve individual therapeutic goals in these 4 portions of weekly sessions:
- Improve conversation skills – listening, telling, pragmatics, volleys of talking
- Reciprocal chat
- Careful remembering
- Alert and considerate body posture
- Eye Contact
- Concise and interesting reporting of news
- Sharing feelings and experiences
- Taking the perspective of others
- Practice play skills – partnered, teamed, or whole-group lively games, physical activities, and recreational / leisure pursuits
- Work together toward goals
- Modulate activity level
- Recognize personal space
- Practice the sequence of turns and rules
- Take appropriate emotional risks
- Host and share food – snacking or sharing meals appreciatively and politely
- Practice host and guest skills
- Continue conversation while handling sensory distractions (taste, touch and smell)
- Notice others' needs
- Eat neatly while keeping face, hands and table free of crumbs and spills
- Share responsibility in group goal-oriented projects
- Cooperate, negotiate, and bond
- Take turns
- Compromise
- Initiate ideas for fun
- Make decisions
- Respect opinions of others
- Crafts, constructions, nature activities
- Imaginative, creative projects
- Cooking, games and music
- Skits, video-making, role playing and puppets
- Celebrations, service projects, etc.
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Tell me More
- Serves people from age 3 1/2 through adulthood. About 20 groups meet weekly, divided somewhat by age
- Meets weekly year round usually for 1 1/2 hours in 8 or 16-week series
- Currently groups meet in:
- Newtown Square, Delaware County, PA (meets Wednesdays and Thursdays)
- Spring House, Montgomery County, PA (meets Tuesdays and sometimes Wednesdays)
- West Chester, Chester County, PA (meets Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
- Each group meets after school or in the evenings and has approximately 5 to 9 participants
- Each participant receives a free Progress Interview toward the end of the first series.
- Free interviews are then held every other series if a family continues enrollment.
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