Fall Group Schedule
Starting Week of Sept 12th, 2011
10 weeks
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| Day | Time | Group | Age |
| Monday | 10:30-11:30AM | Mighty Mites | 2-4 years |
| 4:30-5:30PM | Fit Friends | 6-12 years | |
| Tuesday | 4:00-5:00PM | Move to Talk | 3-5 years |
| 5:15-6:15PM | Team Time | 6-10 years | |
| Wednesday | 11:00-11:45PM | Karma Kids | 3-5years |
| 4:30-5:30PM | Girls Power Hour | 12-18 years | |
| Thursday | 10:30-11:15am | Terrific Tumblers | 18-36months |
| Friday | 3:15-4:00PM | Motor Time | 3-5 years |
If you have not been to our facility before please fill out our online intake form.
Terrific Tumblers
Age Range: 18-36 months Therapists: Jan and Eileen
Day: Thursday Time: 10:30-11:15pm
It’s time to jump, twirl, and cartwheel our way to group fun! Terrific Tumblers is designed for preschoolers of all abilities.
The group will be doing fun activities like
- Balancing games
- Obstacle courses
- Rock climbing wall
- Relay races
Targeted at developing your child’s
- Body awareness and motor planning
- Gross motor coordination
- Strength
- Balance
- Flexibility
- Self-esteem , social participation, and school readiness skills
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Fit Friends
Age Range: 6-12 years Therapists: Katie
Day: Mondays Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Kids with ASD can get fit with many opportunities to meet their sensory needs. Obstacles courses, crash pillows, swings, treadmills, and zip line will keep us moving for an hour of fun. Friends of all abilities are welcome to join!
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Move to Talk
Age Range: 3-5 years Therapists: Katie and Cheryl
Day: Tuesday Time: 4-5:00pm
Make new friends while doing fun activities like:
- “A Day at the Farm”
-“Going to the Beach”
… and so much more!!!
This group was designed by an Occupational Therapist and a Speech-Language Pathologist to promote improved social pragmatics, sensory-motor skills, self-regulation, and expressive and receptive language skills. Participants of Move to Talk will practice skills such as turn taking, following directions and cooperative play through various movement-based activities. This group is targeted at young children whose difficulties with self-regulation interfere with their social skill development. It is also ideal for children with receptive and expressive language delays, verbal apraxia, motor planning difficulties, and sensory processing challenges.
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Team Time
Age Range: 6-10 years old Therapists: Katie and Cheryl
Day: Tuesday Time: 5:15-6:15pm
Our Teams will do all sorts of fun things – here are just a few of them!
- obstacle courses
- scavenger hunts
- “body beanbag”
- parachute games
- and much more!
This group was designed by an Occupational Therapist and a Speech-Language Pathologist to promote improved social pragmatics, sensory-motor skills, self-regulation, and expressive and receptive language. Through the use of teamwork and group activities, participants will practice cooperative play, problem solving, turn taking, and listening skills. Groups will also focus on improving body awareness skills necessary for appropriate social interactions.
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Ready to Write
Age Range: 5-7 years old Therapists: Katie
Start Date: 4/13/2011 Day: Wednesday Time: 4-5:00pm
Join us for fun and games! Here are just a few of the things we will get up to!
-Writing letters and words in shaving cream, paint, sand, sand AND paint!
-Games that make learning your letters fun
-Play ‘Fine Motor Olympics’ (and then teach your friends, siblings or mom and dad to play too!)
-Scavenger hunts and obstacle courses using the incredible equipment available in our gym!
Targeted at developing your child’s:
Improving their sitting posture, helping their grip mature, increasing trunk strength and hand strength, enhancing their control during tool use, improving legibility through formation, orientation, spacing and sizing of letters
Created and run by an occupational therapist or certified occupational therapy assistant to improve handwriting skills in school-aged children.
Prepare kids for writing by increasing strength, body awareness skills, fine motor coordination, and visual-motor skills. Participants will use a variety of exercises from the Handwriting Without Tears and Callirobics programs as well.
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Wicked Writers
Age Range: 8-11 years old Therapists: Katie
Start Date: 4/11/2011 Day: Monday Time: 5-6:00pm
Here are just a few of the activities we are going to be doing in this group!
-Make and mail postcards to each other
-Play ‘Fine Motor Olympics’ (and then teach your friends, siblings or mom and dad to play too!)
-Scavenger hunts and obstacle courses using the incredible equipment available in our gym!
-Get creative with sentences and stories!
-Make your own comic strip
Targeted at developing your child’s:
Prepare kids for writing by increasing strength, body awareness skills, fine motor coordination, and visual-motor skills. Participants will use a variety of exercises from the Handwriting Without Tears, Fine Motor Olympics and Callirobics programs as well.
Improving their sitting posture, helping their grip mature, increasing trunk strength and hand strength, enhancing their control during tool use, improving legibility through formation, orientation, spacing and sizing of letters
Created and run by an occupational therapist or certified occupational therapy assistant to improve handwriting skills in school-aged children.
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Girls Power Hour
Age Range: 12-18 years old Therapist: Jan
Day: Wednesday Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Girl’s Power Hour is an hour of fun and fitness for teenage girls with disabilities.
Join us for an hour of heart pumping fun as we encourage one another toward a lifetime of being healthy and fit. Participants will be evaluated for a baseline fitness level during the first session.
From there they will participate in a combination of cardio and strengthening exercises to reach their individual fitness goals. So turn up the music and bring your smile. The Boston Ability Center will be rockin’ with girl power on Wednesday afternoons.
Girls of all abilities are welcome!
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Cooking Up Conversation
Age Range: 6-10 years old Therapists: Cheryl
Start Date: 4/14/2011 Day: Thursday Time: 4-5:00pm
Boys and girls ranging between 6 and 10 years of age will use cooking to expand their receptive, expressive and social language skills.
Depending on the age and level of your child this activity gives the opportunity to:
- ask and answer questions
- follow multiple step directions through words or pictures
- increase vocabulary
- problem solve
- work together
The goals will be chosen to match the group’s age and ability as they progress through the 10 week session.
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