Join our therapy group designed for kids with disabilities to build social skills while having fun.
Kids work together to create LEGO models, practising sharing, turn-taking, eye contact, and teamwork. The group also helps improve language, fine motor skills, and visual skills like spotting details. Learning in a group means kids can connect with peers their own age, making social skill development more natural and effective. It’s a great way for kids to make friends and grow confidence in a supportive, motivating setting.
Intended outcomes of program
- Promoting social interaction and social communication
- Develop social skills such as turn-taking, sharing, collaborative problem solving, shared attention, and eye contact
- Language and vocabulary development. As the group is heavily focused on social skill development, it in turns creates opportunities to target language and vocabulary goals.
- Use of LEGO will also target fine motor skill goals, such as finger and hand strength, in-hand manipulation.
- Use of LEGO will also target visual perceptual skills, such as visual discrimination and figure ground. Visual discrimination skills are relevant to many student goals such as handwriting, reading. Figure ground is relevant during tasks such as looking for things that are lost. Visual perceptual skills as a whole are very important and impact lots of different activities of daily living, such as dressing.
Dates:
- 7 July – 17 July: 2pm-3:30pm
- Length of program: 4 x 1.5hour session (Mon, Thur & Mon, Thursday)
- During school holidays.
Venue:
SensesWA 9 Harris Road, Busselton
Things to note:
- The notice period for exiting this program of support is 2 weeks.
- Please provide an email to your SensesWA therapist advising you would like to exit.
- Any feedback or reasons you’d like to share with us will help us improved future programs.
Cost:
- Programs of Support can be paid for by NDIS using your budget. Capacity Building – Occupational Therapy
- Programs of Support can also be paid for privately, and in some instances rebates claimed from your Health Insurance Fund.
- Our minimum group attendees is 2. Our maximum group attendees is 8. We will advise you in advance of the group starting as to how many people are agree to attend and confirm the cost (max 4 participants to 1 therapist).
For further information
Phone: 1300 111 881
Email: customerservice@senses.org.au
