Social Skills Groups

Does your child have any of the following challenges?

* Waiting for their turn * Making eye contact * Verbalizing their feelings

* Sharing with others * Always wanting to be in control * Getting frustrated easily

* Anxiety * Difficulty transitioning * Sensory processing & motor skills delay

Our Social Skills programs are designed by professional therapists to work on these challenges and slowly help transition your child into a better way of coping with these behavioral issues.

They work within a small group setting with 2:1 ratio of teacher v. child, getting individualized attention while improving motor skills.

Not sure which group is right for your child? Schedule a free screen or consultation with one of our therapists, and our professional therapist will guide you to select the most beneficial group for your child.

Download the group registration form here, or register online here!

Don't forget about our Mini Camps! School Vacation Mini Camp runs next starting November 7th!! Enroll NOW!

"SUPER HERO" Group: For boys and girls

This group is geared to satisfy the ‘Super Hero' in your child. “Superhero group” is a gross-motor, sensory-based group, where children plan and participate in various gross motor activities, obstacle course and strengthening ‘superhero’ exercises.

The group has recently been revamped and redesigned to be more effective. It is now run in 3 levels. As your child progresses and obtains the skills from one level, he/she will then move on to the next level. By achieving skills before moving on to the next level, you child will master skills, and then add to them, making them more complex.

Through these activities children learn teamwork, taking turns, sharing, transitioning and communicating appropriately with peers, while working on skills that will enhance strength, balance, coordination, and overall muscle power! They also improve skills such as running, jumping, hopping, and climbing skills. Group has both structured and unstructured activities. Great class for children with: social deficits, anxiety, sensory modulation, low tone and mild special needs. Children with high functioning Autism/PDD; ADHD; Apraxia (motor planning); Sensory integration; LD can also benefit from it.

New 6 week session starts soon!

Rate: Call to inquire

Scotch Plains Location (Starting Wed., January 11th)

Level 1: Wednesdays from 3:45 to 4:30

Level 1: Wednesdays from 4:30 to 5:15

East Brunswick Location (Starting Mon., November 7th)

Level 1: Mondays from 4:45 to 5:30

"YOGA BUDS"

Yoga is great for all kids.

Yoga serves as a sensory diet for a child and helps enhance your child’s focus, strength, posture, and body awareness.

The TTT yoga program is based on “Yoga for the Special Child®" developed by Sonia Sumar, and taught by certified and trained therapist. The class is a structured program where children will be provided visual demonstrations and pictures to follow poses, take turns, vocalize through sounds/music to improve breathing & timing, and take home yoga routines to incorporate into daily lfe.

All children can benefit from this program including children with special needs such as CP, Down syndrome, ADHD/ADD, Autism, and Sensory processing disorder.

Parents are encouraged to participate.

Rate: Call to inquire

Scotch Plains Location (Starting Mon., November 7th & Wed., November 9th)

Mondays & Wednesdays: 10am to 10:45

* Yoga mats provided for kids. Adults to bring their own mats.

"I CAN WRITE" Handwriting Group"

3 Part Series

Handwriting group based on the award winning program “Handwriting Without Tears” designed to address formation, sizing, spacing, orientation, reversals, legibility, speed & pencil grasp. Other handwriting program techniques are also integrated into the program.

It's a structured Handwriting group led by an Occupational therapist.

Group involves a multisensory approach with participation in sensory play, games, music and movement, fine motor manipulatives,

to improve body awareness, visual memory, finger strength,dexterity and learn letter, numbers & shapes formation.

Ages 3-5 yrs group focus on prewriting and upper case letters and numbers.

Ages 6-8yrs group focus on lower case letters, words and sentences.

Rate: Call to inquire

Scotch Plains Location (Starting Mon., November 7th)

Part 1: Mondays from 4pm to 4:45

Part 1: Mondays from 4:45 to 5:30

East Brunswick Location (Starting Wed., November 9th)

Part 1: Wednesdays from 4pm to 4:45pm

*Part 2 will be added to the schedule for the next 6 week session*

*Individual sessions also available*

Tumbling Tots Gymnastics (Starting Thurs., November 10th)

Scotch Plains Location - Thursdays from 4:30 to 5:15

Children will learn basic gymnastics skills on the four main events the Vault, Bars, Beam and Floor Exercise. They will also participate in obstacle courses, strengthening exercises and various stretching exercises. The focus of this group is turn taking, socializing with others, and enhancing strength, balance, coordination and motor planning skills.Tumbling Tots Gymnastics

Time For Us (Starting Tues., November 8th & Thurs. November 10th)

Scotch Plains Location - Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30am to 11am

For parents and children 9 months to 1.5 years old, this group involves singing, signing music, and movement, parachute, story time, and sensory art to develop play motor milestones and overall social-emotional development.

Toddler Tots (Starting Tues. November 8th & Thurs. November 10th)

Scotch Plains Location - Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30am to 11am

For parents and children ages 2 through 4. This class continues to engage children and their parents in various activities to develop their play motor milestones and overall social-emotional development. This is a great group to help transition children from participating with their parents to eventually building the confidence to take the next step and independently participate in one of our groups.

"SPORT STARS" (Starting Fri., November 11th in Scotch Plains & Mon., November 7th in East Brunswick)

Scotch Plains Location - Fridays from 4pm to 4:45pm

East Brunswick Location - Mondays from 5:45 to 6:30

Children will learn different sports skills to be able to participate in soccer, baseball, football or basketball. Ball skills, eye hand/foot coordination, turn taking, team work, following directions will be emphasized.

"Social Lite" AKA the Wii Group (Starting Wed., November 9th)

Ages 13- 16 yrs

Scotch Plains Location - Wednesdays from 5:30pm to 6:15pm

This group will focus on learning and implementing appropriate social interaction among peers within the community and lead a healthy life style. This program was designed to use Wii video games to gradually "break the ice" and engage in physical activity to promote strength and endurance. The group balances social skills and physical activity to help increase self confidence and decrease stress and anxiety not only in the same age group, but universally.

TTT INC. SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS GUIDELINES & POLICIES:

Classes are held once to twice a week

ALL groups are subject to cancellation (At least 3 children must enroll in each class for it to run)

Class size: 4-6 children, limited enrollment. Smaller class means more personal attention to your child's needs.

Children are grouped based on skill and/or age level

Class will address Individual &/or group goals

6 week enrollment is recomended.

If only attending 1 or 2 classes, drop in rate will be charged.

$50 deposit required along with registration form.

Full payment is due on the first day of class.

* All fees & deposits are non-refundable*

Missed sessions will not be prorated

Groups are not covered by insurance plans

* Should caregiver and therapist agree that the child is not appropriate for a specific program after the child has started in a program, a refund amount will be prorated, based on number of sessions attended, minus a $50 fee to cover administrative costs. Otherwise tuition fees are non refundable.

Please note: We reserve the right to cancel any program for lack of enrollment. Then, tuition deposits will be refunded in full.

*Call the office if interested to inquire about DATES of programs and have an enrollment form mailed or emailed to you.