Emerge’s Summer Sessions offer fun and intensive opportunities to address important skills including: social, communication, sensory processing, fine motor, visual motor, handwriting, and coping. We have programs for children ranging from age 3 to 12. Your child does NOT need to be a client at Emerge to attend.
Welcome to the Emerge Specialized Group and Summer Programs. The specialized programs are an opportunity for children to receive a more intensive therapy experience, in a small group setting, at a lower cost. The programs are open to both children who are current Emerge clients as well as those who are not. Please click the links in the navigation bar for detailed information and registration forms. Feel free to call our office if you have further questions. Early registration is recommended as our summer programs tend to fill quickly.
SUMMER PROGRAMS!!
InterACTing New This Year! We are so excited to offer this new program geared to the older child (8-12 years old). Led by a speech pathologist, InterACTing will use drama as the medium for helping young people expand their social and communication skills.
CreativeWriters New This Year! Based on parental request, Emerge is pleased to debut our Creative Writers program. Led by Kelly, one of our speech therapists, Creative Writers will help take older students to that next level of writing, incorporating shared experiences and visual imagery into their writing
Capable Kindergarteners and Ready Writers, are popular programs that Emerge has offered since its inception. These programs are designed for children who will be attending typical classrooms who need help developing writing skills, including fine and visual motor foundations. This year we are expanding these programs to be a full morning for 4 days. As a result, we will be able to incorporate more sensorimotor activities in the always popular OT gym.
Staying Cool, our summer program designed to teach coping strategies for children with anxiety has evolved into a year round program, now known as Cool Cats.
Preschool Power and Recipe For Fun are collaborations between Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy. They both include a strong language and social component and are appropriate for children with mild to moderate speech and/or language delays, sensory processing/ integration disorders, challenges with social interactions, Asperger’s Syndrome or high functioning autism, and/or mild developmental delays.
Year Round Programs:
Writing For Fun We will be offering one more session of our young writers program before the end of the school year. Writing For Fun is geared to 5 and 6 year olds (preK thru 1st grade). This small group program is designed to build on a child’s current drawing and writing abilities and then advance their skills with attention to correct letter formation and legibility. Writing For Fun uses activities that are engaging for both eager and reluctant writers.
Creative Cooks is a four week small group program focused on enhancing communication and social skills through cooking activities. We have found this to be a good vehicle for engaging children, as most children are enthusiastic about food activities. At the same time, we are also able to accommodate children who have a very limited food repertoire, encouraging them to expand their food choices. Creative Cooks is a speech and occupational therapy collaboration program. It is finished for this school year. If interested in a similar program, check out our summer Recipe for Fun Program.
Cool Cats is a small group program for children with anxiety. Geared to children 5-7 years of age, this program helps children develop strategies for coping with everyday life though activities that include gym-based sensory diet, cognitive strategies, yoga and social skills activities.