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FOR OUR YOUNGEST STUDENTS “THINK LEFT AND THINK RIGHT AND THINK LOW AND THINK HIGH. OH, THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK UP IF ONLY YOU TRY!” – DR. SEUSS Camp SMILE: Sensory-Motor Integration and Language Experience Monday–Friday

Little SAILors! A Speech And Intensive Language Camp

Tuition: $4,400 for completed contracts and full payment

Ages 3–6

received by March 10; $4,800 after March 10.

9:30am–12:00pm

Ages: 4–7 7:45am–12:45pm

Experience a dynamic camp day that offers a multitude of sensory 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,

Monday–Friday Tuition: $3,995 for completed contracts and full payment received by March 10; $4,200 after March 10. Sail away with us on an exciting, interactive morning camp adventure focusing on language, early literacy, and socialpragmatic skills! • Weekly camp themes target specific vocabulary and concept development.

motor, and social skills. • Activities of Daily Living are integrated throughout the day to

• Songs and routines emphasize social language and skills for getting ready and organized for the school day.

promote executive function skills and independence. • Occupational therapy activities emphasize balance, gross and fine motor coordination, body awareness, motor planning and

• Fun and creative story and craft activities reinforce and provide practice with language skills, while promoting peer interaction. • Daily individual therapy addresses your child’s specific speech

core strength. • Speech-language games target whole body listening, turn-

and language needs. • NEW this year! Weekly individual and small group

taking, and problem-solving. • Story and arts and crafts groups address early literacy, concept development, and fine motor and perceptual skills through

occupational therapy addresses sensory regulation and motor skills. • Weekly newsletters provide student-specific updates

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

and suggestions for at-home activities. • Parent forums each week discuss weekly camp themes and associated language strategies.

home and school.

A brief screening will be required before enrollment into Camp SMILE and Little SAILors for students attending schools other than The Lab School. For more information, please contact the Occupational Therapy Department at 202–349–8600 or [email protected], or for Little SAILors, Kelly Mills at 202–349–8660 or [email protected]. 6

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY DURING THE DAY Speech and Language Therapy 8:30am–1:30pm For students enrolled in the Morning Summer Programs Individual sessions: $135/session Individual therapy sessions are available for students of all ages. All sessions are 60 minutes in length, highly individualized, and can target skills such as: • Vocabulary and Concept Knowledge • Grammar/Syntax • Listening and Reading Comprehension • Language Formulation and Organization • Social Pragmatics • Problem Solving • Phonological Awareness, Reading, and Spelling • Written Expression • Voice, Fluency, and Articulation Individual sessions may also be scheduled before or after the summer school day, as needed.

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SPEECH AND L ANGUAGE INTENSIVE PROGR AMS: BEFORE AND Intensive Phonological Awareness and Reading Fluency Program Ages 5 and above (students paired by age and skill-level) Monday–Friday Times (choose one): 7:30am–8:30am, 1:30pm–2:30pm, 2:30pm–3:30pm, 3:30pm–4:30pm Tuition: $2,550 Instruction is highly individualized and systematically targets the development of reading and spelling skills. A variety of research-based reading programs based on the Orton-Gillingham approach may be utilized, specific to the needs of each child. Daily sessions include: • Individual and small-group instruction, tailored to student-specific needs. • Computer-based instruction for further practice with phonological, decoding and encoding skills.

Program I: Launch into Reading and Spelling • Develop pre- and early-literacy skills. • Increase rhyming, blending, segmenting, and sound manipulation skills. • Enhance knowledge of alphabetic code and early reading and spelling skills. • Improve automatic, fluent reading.

Program II: Beyond the Basics • Improve phonological awareness skills and alphabetic code knowledge. • Develop syllabification skills and morphological awareness

The Problem Solvers’ Brigade Ages 6–18 (3–4 students grouped by age and skill-level) Monday–Friday Times (choose one): 7:30am–8:30am, 1:30pm–2:30pm, 2:30pm–3:30pm, 3:30pm–4:30pm Tuition: $2,140 Work with peers to tackle fun and engaging team dilemmas while

to enhance reading and spelling (e.g., recognition of prefixes,

learning and practicing social thinking and problem-solving skills.

suffixes, roots).

• Improve social pragmatic skills, such as conversation,

• Enhance reading accuracy and fluency for comprehension.

Build reading skills and confidence!

negotiation, and perspective-taking. • Participate in experiential, hands-on activities and team challenges geared to provide practice with social thinking. • Improve executive function skills related to multi-step project planning. • Develop language skills to navigate one’s social and academic world.

“IT’S KIND OF FUN TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.” – WALT DISNEY 8

AFTER SCHOOL – Back by Popular Demand! Language and Learning Programs Monday–Friday Times (choose one): 7:30am–8:30am, 1:30pm–2:30pm, 2:30pm–3:30pm, 3:30pm–4:30pm Tuition: $2,550

Program I: Building the Framework Organizing and Scaffolding Language Ages 7–11 (paired by age and skill-level) • Improve the ability to share knowledge and express oneself in a more organized and effective manner. • Develop narrative skills and learn to elaborate on thoughts and ideas. • Learn to identify key information and develop the ability to rephrase, summarize, and explain with one’s own words. • Improve the ability to follow multi-step directions using specific strategies.

Program II: Expanding the Framework Discovering the Deeper Meaning of Language Ages 12 and above (paired by age and skill-level) • Improve higher-level reading comprehension, summarization and note-taking skills. • Increase executive functioning skills in the context of the writing process. • Improve understanding and interpretation of academic vocabulary. • Develop an understanding of various expository text structures (e.g., compare/contrast, cause/effect). Please contact Kelly Mills at 202–349–8660 or [email protected] for more information about any of the Speech and Language Intensive Summer Sessions or for guidance about which session would be most appropriate for your child.

“E XCELLENCE IS TO DO A COMMON THING IN AN UNCOMMON WAY.” – BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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