For our youngest students “Around here we don’t look backwards for very long...We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things Camp SMILE: Sensory-Motor Integration and Language Experience Ages: 4–7 8:00am–1:00pm Monday–Friday Fee: $4,500 Experience a dynamic camp day that offers a multitude of sensory
because we’re curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney
experiences, as well as daily practice with social thinking, selfregulation, and challenging motor activities. • Sensory Integration, Zones of Regulation®, and Social Thinking® programs help students to enhance skills, learn strategies, and develop self-regulation. • Daily aquatic therapy uses water-based play to address sensory, motor, and social skills. • Activities of Daily Living are integrated throughout the day to promote executive function skills and independence. • Occupational therapy activities emphasize balance, gross and fine motor coordination, body awareness, motor planning and core strength. • Speech-language games target whole body listening, turntaking, and problem-solving. • Story and arts and crafts groups address early literacy, concept development, and fine motor and perceptual skills through dynamic, multi-sensory instruction. • Daily yoga and mindfulness practices, in conjunction with individualized sensory strategies, promote self-awareness. • End-of-camp report provides individualized suggestions for home and school. A brief screening will be required before enrollment into Camp SMILE for students attending schools other than The Lab School. Please contact the Occupational Therapy Department at 202-349-8600 or
[email protected] for more information.
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Leap into Language at Lab: Intensive Intervention for Young Learners *This program is not running during Summer 2016, but will be returning in Summer 2017!* Explore a morning camp opportunity for young students (ages 3-6) who need daily intensive language stimulation and intervention in the context of a fun summer program! The camp day includes individual therapy daily, tailored to your child’s specific speech and language needs, as well as small group activities that facilitate language, social communication, play, and early literacy skills.