C.H.E.F.S Group Therapy Program
Age Group (7-11): Week 1 Program
Session Time
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (2 hours per day)
Dates
Monday, 30th September – Wednesday, 2nd October 2024
Total Duration
6-hour program (2 hours x 3 days)
Age Group (7-11): Week 2 Program
Session Time
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM (2 hours per day)
Dates
Tuesday, 8th October – Thursday, 10th October 2024
Total Duration
6-hour program (2 hours x 3 days)
Program Focus:
Promotes social communication skills, resilience, emotional regulation, and confidence
Target Age Group:
7-9 year olds (Primary School children)
Designed and Run By:
Speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and supported by allied health assistants
Goal:
Helps children develop social awareness and social confidence through supported peer interactions
Key Benefit:
Provides a safe environment for practicing and generalizing social interaction concepts
Program Setting:
Fun and engaging sessions held after a busy school day
Long-Term Impact:
Opportunities for developing lasting friendships and connections over the school term and beyond for children with longer-term goals
Key Features
Areas of focus in this program will include:
- Making and maintaining friendships
- Building social awareness
- Initiating conversations
- Collaboration skills
- Understanding body language
- Winning, losing, sportsmanship and teamwork
- Judging and appropriately responding to body language and facial expressions
- Making and maintaining friendships
- Building social awareness
- Initiating conversations
- Collaboration skills
- Understanding body language
- Winning, losing, sportsmanship and teamwork
- Judging and appropriately responding to body language and facial expressions