Group Therapy
At Look Who's Talking we're always devising new and creative ways to help our clients reach their full potential. One of the ways we strive to achieve this is through group therapy!
Group therapy allows children to experience a range of benefits, otherwise not experienced in individual therapy. Children have the ability to work on their speech and language goals in a collaborative and supportive environment, while fostering the opportunity to engage with peers.
Group therapy has been shown to provide a more relaxed, natural environment for children to work towards their therapeutic goals and helps to improve their social interactions and social communication skills.
Most importantly, group therapy makes learning fun and has demonstrated an increase in children’s confidence when communicating with others.
Our group therapy sessions consist of three (2hour) sessions guided by a Speech Pathologist and an Allied Health Assistant. Our Speech Pathologists and Allied Health Assistants work together to formulate tailored groups that focus on each of the group’s abilities and goals.
To meet the needs of each child, our Speech Pathologists work diligently to produce a range of interactive individualised resources to guide each child through the activities and meet their goals.
Following on from the group therapy, reports are written for each child detailing their progress throughout the sessions and highlighting their strengths and areas that have potential for improvement.
All groups will run for 1-2 hours, weekly (fortnightly for Crafty Connections) across the 2nd-10th weeks of term 2 (17th July -15th September). When signing up for the program you are required to sign up for the whole 9 weeks. All groups are run by a Speech Pathologist with 4 to 8 children (if 5+ children, an Allied Health Assistant will also assist). The cost of the group session is dependent on the number of children attending that group.
Our Term 3 group programs include:
Age dependent on interest
Time and Day: Wed 3:30-4:45pm
Cost: $1,863 – $2,036 (3-6 children)
Our LEGO Group is designed to utilise the fun and engagement of LEGO to support oral language, peer relationships and social communication skills. This group aims to build on individual strengths and provide a space for children to engage with peers around a common interest. A wonderful opportunity to target a variety of skills such as:
Age dependent on interest
Time and Day: Tues 3:30-5:00
Cost: $1,817 – $2,065
Look Who’s Gaming is a group designed to provide a supportive and inclusive space to connect with others and build meaningful relationships with like-minded peers. Using fun, interactive group activities, children will have the opportunity to engage in online and offline gaming experiences to promote teamwork and communication, and to discuss strategies for navigating social interactions. This group will build on individual strengths and interests, and is aimed to support:
3-5 years
Time and Day: Fri 10:30-12:30
Cost: $1,955 – $2285
This group is designed specifically for children aged three to five-years-old, who have difficulties exploring new foods and have a limited diet. Look Who’s Eating focuses on equipping parents and caregivers with practical strategies to facilitate and support their child and mealtimes whilst using the SOS (Sequential, Oral, Sensory) Approach. It also allows children to have a safe space to explore and build positive relationships with food. Look Who’s Eating provides the opportunity for parents to practice applying these strategies in a supported environment. This group will build on individual strengths and interests, and is aimed to support:
2 to 4 Years
Time and Day: Wed 11:00-12:00
Cost: $1,771 – $1,845
*Note: Parents/carers are required to attend this group
Join us on a playful and engaging journey as we nurture and develop your child’s communication skills. Through interactive activities, games, and communication techniques, we focus on building early language, speech sounds, vocabulary, social interaction, and pre-literacy skills with your children as well as empowering you with these strategies so you can continue fostering these skills at home. Our dedicated team of speech therapists are here to support and guide you and your little ones in reaching their communication milestones.
7-9 years
Time and Day: Tues 3:30-4:30
Cost: $1,680 – $1,845
Join us as we help children who find reading and spelling tricky! This group is based on the evidence-based program called Sounds Write. Sounds Write focuses on using speech, touch and movement to help the brain make new connections for spelling and reading. Our group helps enable children to build confidence and skills in this area, in a supportive and encouraging environment alongside peers! A wonderful opportunity to target a variety of literacy skills such as:
6-9 years
Time and Day: Thurs 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $1,680 – $1,845
Get your thinking hats on and become part of the Comprehension Crew! Practice all things receptive language such as understanding questions, vocabulary, concepts and following directions in this action packed group! Work along side peers to develop skills and strategies to support your understanding of language. This group will build on individual strengths and interests, and is aimed to support:
6-10 year old girls
Time and Day: Fortnightly Saturday 12:00-2:00
Cost: $1,058-$1,735
Crafty Connections, designed exclusively for neurodivergent young girls, combines hands-on crafts and delightful lunchtime gatherings, to explore communication and connection in a creative and supportive environment. We believe in the magic of creativity and the power of connection created by a shared meal, and we’ve merged them seamlessly into an exciting and engaging group program. From painting to puppet-making, each session is thoughtfully designed to enhance each girls strengths, vocabulary, self expression, and social connections. Whilst the girls bond over a yummy lunch and creative crafts, our Speech Therapists will foster a safe space to build upon each girls communicative strengths to support their social connections. Our small group setting ensures personalised attention and creates a nurturing space for your girls to grow their connections!
Group 1: 5-8 years, 8:00am – 10:00am
Group 2: 9-14 years, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Our Social Connections groups will provide an environment to foster interest based discussions and activities in small group activities. We welcome children to join in group activities where they will work together with peers in fun, social interactions to build confidence, communication and problem solving skills. This group will provide a supportive, inclusive and encouraging environment for children to form new relationships with peers and practice using their social language skills in natural, interest led environments.
Group: 6 -10 years, 9:30am – 11:30am
A morning filled with fun and games targeting the vital pre-literacy skills needed to learn to read and sound out words. Our phonological awareness & literacy group will enable children to build confidence and skills in this area in a supportive and encouraging environment alongside peers.
Group: 4 – 6 years, 11:00am – 1:00pm
A morning of lots of fun activities to prepare us for school! We will be singing, dancing, playing and most importantly LEARNING! We all want to be ready for prep, so it’s important for us to know about our sounds and letters, story telling and how we can talk to all of our new prep friends!
Group: 6 – 9 years, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
An afternoon of story telling, crafts and fun! We will unleash our creative flare while learning important narrative language skills such as understanding sequencing, elements of narratives, complex sentences, and more! Arts and crafts are an amazing way to help develop language skills in children as they engage in interactive and hands-on activities.
Group: 5 – 9 years, 1:30pm – 3:30 pm
An afternoon of feeding fun! Our feeding groups are designed for your child to learn about why we eat, the different tastes and textures of food and strategies to feel safe during mealtimes through the use of food exploration and cooking within a group environment.
As spots are limited and as our clinicians require time to design and individualise each group, we hope to confirm group bookings by the 26th of November.
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