Social Skills Classes

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Carol SadlerSpecial Education Consultant/AdvocateCarolSadler@...www.IEPadvocate4You.com

Social Skills Classes

Here is some information about social skills classes. Kellie Hetzel and her company, Aurora Strategies, are truly making a difference in the lives of disabled children. I highly recommend her and recommend that you advocate for your school system to provide for the cost of the program, if your child needs it. I am finding school systems are giving lip service to developing social skills and executive functioning skills. Chris

www.aurorastrategies.com

125 mont Avenue, Suite 450, Decatur, Georgia, 30030

Phone 404.377.8882 Fax 404.377.8825

Aurora Strategies provides innovative and scientifically valid programs for rapid and significant improvement of cognitive functioning, physical performance, social skills, and academic and communicative success. We achieve this mission by addressing each client’s unique strengths and challenges through utilization of state-of-the-art therapeutic, educational, and physical training programs, advancing everyone we serve toward personal success.

Vision Quest: Building Blocks for Social Success

The Vision Quest classes at Aurora Strategies are designed around 8 week curriculum blocks. Each block emphasizes 2 or 3 general social skills related to brain-based performance, and although we anticipate that most children will proceed through the entire curriculum, the schedule is flexible enough to allow families to take a break or omit a course should their child not need a particular component. Each class meets twice per week with accompanying fun and easy homework activities. Courses specifically address age appropriate needs and are designed and customized based on the individual and group profile. Students are grouped based on age and social development as well as previous class participation.

Winter Class:

Making Friends / Building Emotional Intelligence

What are the rules of being a good friend? For most of us, the rules include being able to cooperate and play fairly. This group, therefore, concentrates on skills related to proximity (staying in or appropriately defending our personal space), developing skills for thinking of others first when having a conversation and playing, conversation starters and ways to keep a conversation going, as well as using good coping skills when challenged by social situations. Emotional Intelligence is exhibited by the ability to acknowledge and value feelings in ourselves and others and to appropriately respond to them.

Registration Information

Session I: Making Friends / Building Emotional Intelligence

Dates: February 21 – April 13

Mondays and Wednesdays / 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.

Cost: $450.00 – A $225.00 non-refundable deposit is due with this form (your child’s space can not be reserved without this deposit)

Please complete all of the following information and return this form to Aurora Strategies as soon as possible.

Child’s Name: __________________________________________ Date of Birth: ___________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________

City / State / ZIP: _______________________________________________________________________

Parent(s) / Guardian(s) Name(s): ___________________________________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________

City / State / ZIP: _______________________________________________________________________

Daytime Phone: ____________________________ Nighttime Phone: _____________________________

Mobile: ___________________ (please circle best contact number)

E-mail: _______________________________________________________________________________

Emergency Contact: ____________________________________ Relationship: _____________________

Phone: ______________________________________

Payment Information

Please make checks payable to Aurora Strategies, Inc. and mail to our office.

Check #: _____________ q Payment in full ($450.00) / q Deposit ($225.00) – please check one

If paying by credit card please complete all of the information requested below:

Circle one: VISA MasterCard American Express

Card Number: _________________________________________________________________________

Name on card: ______________________________________________ Exp. Date: _________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

Phone: _________________________ E-mail Address: ________________________________________

Signature: ____________________________________________________

Full payment is due no later the first day of class