Emily and Sarah, speech language therapists, are available to run summer social skills groups in your home. If you are interested in a summer social skills group, Sarah is available weekday mornings and early afternoons. Contact her at sarah@brooklynletters.com.

One family is willing to have the social skills group in their Park Slope home and they are available Wed. 12-3pm.

Here’s more info. about Emily’s two social skills groups she is running soon:

Social Skills Group – 3 to 4 year olds run by Emily

We have two 3 ½ year olds signed up for a social skills group. Both children have speech and/or language delays, and need help practicing their social skills in a focused facilitated group setting. We are looking to add at least one more child to this group.

Dates/Times: Tuesdays starting July 12th from 3:00-4:00pm (lasting 6-8 weeks, TBD)

Location: Homes in Vinegar Hill and Carroll Gardens (will alternate each week)

What we’ll be working on: Using eye contact to let others know we are listening; Understanding and maintaining personal space; Initiating play with other children; Asking for help when needed; Cooperating, sharing, taking turns and working as part of a group; Exploring a variety of feelings through books and games.

Cost: For a group of 2 children, rates are $65 per child, per session. For a group of 3 children, rates are $50 per child, per session. Payment will be collected every 2 weeks, and rates will be adjusted if additional children are added over the course of the summer.

Social Skills Group – Ages 4 to 5 run by Emily

We have one 4 ½ year old interested in joining this social skills group, and we are looking for one to two additional participants.

Dates/Times: Tuesdays starting July 12th from 1:00-2:00pm (lasting 6-8 weeks, TBD)

Location: Park Slope (or could alternate between Park Slope and your home)

What we’ll be working on: “Thinking” with our eyes and using eye contact to let others know we are listening; Understanding and maintaining personal space; Initiating play in a variety of ways with other children; Responding when conflict arises during play; Cooperating, sharing, taking turns and working as part of a group; Identifying “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors and learning how these behaviors impact other people’s feelings.

Cost: For a group of 2 children, rates are $65 per child, per session. For a group of 3 children, rates are $50 per child, per session. Payment will be collected every 2 weeks, and rates will be adjusted if additional children are added over the course of the summer.

*Please contact Emily Harms, M.S., CCC-SLP if you are interested in joining this group or if you would like more information. You can reach her by email at emily@brooklynletters.com or by phone at (347) 850-4152. www.brooklynletters.com

Now is the time to contact us, if you are interested in summer speech language therapy & reading remediation services. Once summer arrives, we will plan our fall schedules.

If your child is currently receiving school speech language therapy services, we will connect with your school therapist and carry over his or her speech and language goals this summer.

If you are interested in literacy help, summer is a great time for your child to continue to develop and nurture their reading and writing skills. Particularly for children with literacy delays, don’t let your child’s literacy gap widen. Our language specialists work with a reading intervention teacher, local learning specialists, and a psychologist trained in evaluating reading and writing disorders. Our reading interventionist, Jo-Ann Kalb, is trained in Orton-Gillingham (PAF), Wilson Reading, Sounds in Motion (a phonemic awareness program that gets kids moving and learning consonant and vowel sounds) and Great Leaps.

Jo-Ann Kalb is a certified NY State and NYC Teacher and Reading Tutor. After a 30 year career teaching grades 1, 2 & 5 in Park Slope, including 10 years as a school librarian, she became a Reading Intervention teacher in 2003. She uses a combination of programs and strategies gleaned from her long professional career to work with students who struggle with reading, phonemic awareness or dyslexia. Jo-Ann is currently a Reading Intervention teacher at PS 10 in Park Slope and she provides group work as well as one on one tutoring.

Jo-Ann travels to your home!
Hours: Mon, Wed-Fri 3:30-7PM
Sat & Sun 10 AM-3 PM

Location: Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, Bay Ridge, Ditmas Park, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene

Types of Services: Initial reading evaluation, reading intervention using research based reading programs.

Expertise: working with children (5-10 years old) who have problems with phonemic awareness and decoding, and/or dyslexia.

She will run a summer group in August for struggling readers (kindergarten-third grade).

Contact Jo-Ann for more information at joann@brooklylearning.com or 347.470.4406

Thanks!
Craig
craig@brooklynletters.com