The Ready, Set, Kindy! group provides an exceptional opportunity for your child’s fundamental school skills to be supported in a program designed by BOTH Speech Pathologist AND Occupational Therapists. The group will strengthen your child’s developmental speech and motor milestones, to support success in the classroom!
The program promotes school readiness skills and supports success in the classroom for children in Kindergarten to year 2. It will support skills and confidence in approaching classroom tasks, encouraging appropriate interaction with following instructions and developing independence.
The intensive program targets the following areas
- Language Skills – Asking and answering WH questions, following multistep instructions, using long sentences with adjectives and conjunctions, categorise objects into groups
- Social Skills – Helping your child to sit, attend and participate appropriately to tasks, verbally request to join play and interact with other children, share and take turns, identifying emotions, introduce techniques for self-regulation and sensory supports, building friendships and social skills around joint play
- Literacy Skills:
- Phonemic Awareness skills (syllabification, rhyme, initial and final sound identification)
- Letter Sound Awareness
- Develop cognitive skills necessary for numeracy and literacy tasks
- Fine Motor Skills
- Developing and maintaining a dynamic tripod pencil grasp for handwriting
- Improving handwriting legibility and speed
- Improving bilateral coordination for classroom scissor tasks
- Self care skills
- Tuning into ‘body cues’ required for thirst, hunger and toileting
- Increasing independence with self-care routines
