Camps & Groups
Spring Break Camp
Who
Kids ages 2 and up, siblings welcome. You do not need to be a current or previous KidVentures client.
Description
Join us this Spring Break for a fun-filled camp consisting of games and activities involving gross motor skills, sensory play, fine motor play including arts and crafts, social games, and stories.
Led By
KidVentures Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapists, and Therapy Techs
What to Bring
- Bring a snack and lunch each day* Diapers/wipes and a change of clothes if needed
When
Dates & Themes:
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm
• We will eat snack and lunch, so please send those with your child each day
Cost
$70/day for the first child, $50/day for siblings* Payment in full required upon registration; no refunds* Enrollment is on a first come, first served basis
“ADVENTURES in the Social World” Summer Camp
Who
4 years and up: ALL AGES CAN BENEFIT FROM THESE IMPORTANT SKILLS!!
Description
Description: During this fun filled 2-week camp kids will review Social Thinking concepts to help strengthen their perspective, talking and social self-awareness regardless of age or ability. The camp will pull from the highly-regarded, evidence-based, We Thinkers! curriculums developed by Michelle Garcia-Winner. The curriculums teach social competencies in fun and engaging ways! The goal of this camp is to establish a common vocabulary for children and their families while building a foundation for supporting success across social interactions… and have fun doing it! The following concepts will be introduced through a daily “read-a-loud” an engaging social story, allowing the opportunity to practice skills within games/activities that match the theme of each book. A daily parent handout will introduce families to the concepts/vocabulary for on-going use in the home and community contexts:
Week 1:
• Thinking Thoughts and Feeling Feelings
• The Group Plan
• Thinking with Your Eyes
• Body in the Group
• Whole Body Listening
Week 2:
• Hidden Rules: Expected/Unexpected Behaviors
• Smart Guess
• Flexible and Stuck Thinking
• Size of the Problem
• Sharing an Imagination
Led By
KidVentures therapists and support staff
Cost
Cost: $700 Payment in full and a brief social pragmatic skills parent questionnaire are required upon registration in order to hold a spot; NO REFUNDS. Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventuresthearpy.com or call 512-327-4499
** While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group, consideration on an individual basis will be made and an additional $10/hour will be applied if 1:1 support is needed
Fun with Food! Summer Camp
Who
3 years and up
Description
Join us this summer for a fun-filled therapeutic camp “Fun with Food”. Our camp will work on integrating postural skills, oral motor skills, sensory skills, behavioral/learning and nutritional factors for children that are considered to be picky eaters. The camp will help children have positive experiences with food, begin to learn about mealtime routines, help them decrease resistance to touching, tasting, and swallowing food and help them increase the range of foods they will try. We will also spend time working on gross motor skills, fine motor skills and sensory processing. This camp is an excellent preparatory camp for future Food School individual or group sessions at KidVentures.
Led By
KidVentures Feeding therapists and support staff
What to Bring
• diapers/pull ups, wipes, and change of clothes if needed
• have your child wear clothing that is okay to get messy
Cost
Cost: $400 (fee includes food/supply cost)
• Payment in full and Food Range Diary’s are required upon registration in order to hold a spot; NO REFUNDS
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventuresthearpy.com or call
512-327-4499
** While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group, consideration on an individual basis will be made and an additional $10/hour will be applied if 1:1 support is needed
Summer Grasp Class
Who
Preschool-entering 1st grade
Description
Is your child holding his or her pencil correctly? Does your child need to improve fine motor strength and endurance? Does your child struggle with or avoid art and other fine motor tasks? Join us this summer for a fun-filled class designed to help your child with grasp skills and hand strength and endurance. Your child will participate in games, obstacle courses, art, and science experiments that incorporate using a mature, tripod grasp. Specific areas to be addressed are postural stability, upper extremity strength and endurance, manual dexterity, visual motor/perceptual skills, and of course grasp. They will use a variety of fun mediums to develop their grasp, including tongs, eye droppers, scissors, markers, crayons, and map pencils. If you are concerned about your young child’s grasp, it is best to correct it as soon as possible, as it is very difficult to correct when they get older.
***Please keep in mind that our handwriting class is geared towards helping kids learn in a group environment. While we have several staff in place, this class is not set up for individual care. If we feel a child’s behavior is detrimental to the group in any way, he/she will be asked to leave and parents will need to pick them up upon phone call.
***We appreciate your help in making this class/group environment a good one for your child and his/her peers. Please discuss with your child appropriate behavior for this setting. Thank you! Also, please feel free to contact us to discuss if you have questions or concerns about behavior.
Led By
Brandi Gitcho, MA, OTR and Therapy Techs
When
Cost
$400 (per 5 day camp week)
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 reserve your spot!
**While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Handwriting Fun: Upper Case Letters
Who
Preschool – entering 1st grade
Description
Who knew handwriting could be fun?! Our kids do! Across the board kids have reported loving this camp, regardless of frustration and reluctance.
“Handwriting really can be fun!” – Tyler G
This camp is designed for young writers who are learning to form their upper case letters. Your child will participate in games, obstacle courses, art, and cooking tasks, all while learning the upper case alphabet. Specific areas to be addressed are upper extremity strength and endurance, postural stability, motor planning, fine motor skills, and visual motor/perceptual skills. Writers will learn how to correctly form upper case letters and use age-appropriate writing lines, all while having fun. This camp focuses on learning how to make upper case letters correctly while improving pencil control.
***Please keep in mind that our handwriting class is geared towards helping kids learn in a group environment. While we have several staff in place, this class is not set up for individual care. If we feel a child’s behavior is detrimental to the group in any way, he/she will be asked to leave and parents will need to pick them up upon phone call.
***We appreciate your help in making this class/group environment a good one for your child and his/her peers. Please discuss with your child appropriate behavior for this setting. Thank you! Also, please feel free to call us to discuss if you have questions or concerns about behavior.
Led By
Brandi Gitcho, MA, OTR and Therapy Techs
When
Cost
Cost: $400 (per 5 day camp week)
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 reserve your spot!
**While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Handwriting Fun: Lower Case Print
Who
preschool entering Kindergarten– entering 1st grade
Description
Who knew handwriting could be fun?! Our kids do! Across the board kids have reported loving this camp, regardless of frustration and reluctance.
“I love this camp so much that I want to come back next year!” – Riley M
This camp is designed for young writers who are learning to form their lower case letters. Your child will participate in games, obstacle courses, art, and cooking tasks, all while learning the lower case alphabet. Specific areas to be addressed are upper extremity strength and endurance, postural stability, motor planning, fine motor skills, and visual motor/perceptual skills. Writers will learn how to correctly form lower case letters and use age-appropriate writing lines, all while having fun. This camp focuses on learning how to make lower case letters correctly as well as words and short phrases.
***Please keep in mind that our handwriting class is geared towards helping kids learn in a group environment. While we have several staff in place, this class is not set up for individual care. If we feel a child’s behavior is detrimental to the group in any way, he/she will be asked to leave and parents will need to pick them up upon phone call.
***We appreciate your help in making this class/group environment a good one for your child and his/her peers. Please discuss with your child appropriate behavior for this setting. Thank you! Also, please feel free to call us to discuss if you have questions or concerns about behavior.
Led By
Brandi Gitcho, MA, OTR and Therapy Techs
When
Cost
Cost: $400 (per 5 day camp week)
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 reserve your spot!
**While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Handwriting Fun: Sentences & Paragraphs
Who
Children entering 1st-5th grades
Description
Who knew handwriting could be fun?! Our kids do! Across the board kids have reported loving this camp, regardless of frustration and reluctance.
“I didn’t even feel like we were working on handwriting because these science experiments are so cool!” – James B
Join us this summer for a fun-filled camp designed to help your child with handwriting skills. Your child will participate in games, obstacle courses, art, and cooking tasks all geared toward an end product of written work based on these activities. Specific areas to be addressed, that promote functional handwriting, include upper extremity strength, postural stability, motor planning, fine motor skills, and visual motor/perceptual skills. Your child’s overall handwriting skills will improve, and he/she will be having fun along the way. This camp is designed for kids that already know how to make their letters and focuses on writing several sentences and/or paragraphs.
***Please keep in mind that our handwriting class is geared towards helping kids learn in a group environment. While we have several staff in place, this class is not set up for individual care. If we feel a child’s behavior is detrimental to the group in any way, he/she will be asked to leave and parents will need to pick them up upon phone call.
***We appreciate your help in making this class/group environment a good one for your child and his/her peers. Please discuss with your child appropriate behavior for this setting. Thank you! Also, please feel free to class us to discuss if you have questions or concerns about behavior.
Led By
Brandi Gitcho, MA, OTR and Therapy Techs
When
Cost
Cost: $400 (per 5-day camp week) or $700 for both weeks
Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 reserve your spot!
***While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Handwriting Fun: Cursive!
Who
3rd grade and up
Description
This camp is designed for young writers who are learning to form cursive letters. Your child will participate in games, obstacle courses, art, and science activities, all while learning cursive. Specific areas to be addressed are upper extremity strength and endurance, postural stability, motor planning, fine motor skills, and visual motor/perceptual skills. Writers will learn how to correctly form cursive letters, how to use cursive for short words and phrases and how to use age-appropriate writing lines, all while having fun.
Led By
Brandi Gitcho, MA, OTR and Therapy Techs
When
Cost
Cost: $400
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 to reserve your spot!
**While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
KidVentures Summer Camp!
Who
2+, siblings welcome
Description
Join us this summer for fun-filled therapeutic camps in which we strive to help your children with their play and social interaction with peers. Specific areas to be addressed include: social/pragmatic skills, gross and fine motor skills, arousal level/self-regulation, sensory processing and speech-language.
Goals
FIND YOUR ZONE July 29th-August 2nd
Let’s Run, Jump, Crash, Play and Get Messy while learning about the Zones of Regulation. This camp will be filled with fun activities and games with a focus on:
• Identifying emotions
• Strategies to help control emotions and impulses
• Sensory motor activities to assist with self-regulation
• Identifying and appropriately responding to the “size of the problem”
• Positive self talk (Inner Coach vs. Inner Critic)
• Perspective taking
• Improve abilities to problem solve conflicts
• Helping kids increasing their awareness and independence with controlling their emotions and impulses
GAMES, GAMES, GAMES August 5th-August 9th
Turn off the screens and get back to the basics. Kids in this camp will get to:
• Play the classics such as Sorry, Jenga, Twister, Connect Four & More
• Play outdoor games such as Capture the Flag, Four Square and Kickball.
• Practice skills needed to hold, manage, and shuffle cards
• Practice winning, losing and turn taking with friends
• Practice our self regulation skills when games don’t go the way we want!
Led By
Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists and Therapy Techs
What to Bring
• snack, lunch, and water bottle
• diapers/pull ups, wipes, and change of clothes if needed
When
Cost
Session Prices : 1 Week- $400 BOTH Weeks- $700
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventurestherapy.com or call 512-327-4499 reserve your spot!
**While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Camp “Summer’s End”
Who
2+, siblings welcome
Description
Don’t let meet the teacher, school supply shopping, or last minute appointments spoil the fun.
Sign your child up for as many days as you want, even if it’s just one!
Enjoy flexibility the week before school starts while your child attends camp!
End your summer on a fun-filled note with KidVentures!
Goals
We will move, laugh and have fun at KidVentures using our motor, language and social skills! We can’t wait to help your child close out their summer in PLAY!!
Led By
KidVentures Therapists and Staff
When
Cost
$70 per day for first child, $50 per day for additional siblings
• Payment in full is required upon registration; no refunds
• Please contact Ashley at frontdesk@kidventuresthearpy.com or call
512-327-4499
- While we are fully staffed for these camps, if your child cannot stay with the group and requires a one-on-one there will be an extra charge of $10/hour.
Pragmatics / Social Skills Group
Who
Consists of a group of 4-6 children who need extra help with social skills, peer interactions, self-regulation, and pragmatics. Pragmatics is the functional use of language in everyday social situations/contexts. Some children can describe pictures and make sentences with appropriate grammar and content, but have difficulty using language appropriately and naturally in social situations. Children may also have difficulty understanding social cues, initiating and maintaining play interactions and/or conversations, and understanding appropriate versus inappropriate ways to interact in social situations with peers and adults.
Description
This group helps to give children the tools to communicate effectively in a variety of social situations (positive and negative) that arise in our everyday life through modeling, facilitation, and group practice of specific skills so that they can build confidence and positive peer relationships. The children and families are provided with ideas for home practice to help generalize skills learned during group. Some children are not ready for a larger group setting and therefore begin in a social skills dyad (group of 2) before becoming a member of the larger group.
Led By
Led by a Speech-Language Pathologist and/or an Occupational Therapist
When
We currently have groups for children ages 4-18. Please call KidVentures for information on availability for each of these groups.
Cost
Please contact KidVentures for information regarding cost.
Food School
Description
KidVentures Therapy Services is proud to introduce a new feeding program called “Food School”. Our feeding team, comprised of occupational therapists Angela Balmer, Erin Fisher and Allison Martin and speech-pathologist Cezanne McLoughlin, is working hard to evaluate and treat children that are picky or problem eaters using the S.O.S. Approach to Feeding. This program has been developed over the course of 20 years through the clinical work of Dr. Kay Toomey. Our Food School Program integrates postural, oral motor, behavioral/learning, sensory and nutritional factors and approaches in order to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding challenges. The general goals of our program are:
1. To learn to have positive experiences with food
2. To learn about mealtime routines
3. To decrease resistance to touching, tasting, and swallowing food
4. To increase the range of foods a child will try
5. To increase the volume of food ingested
For more information, please call us at 512-327-4499.
Bike Riding Group
Who
This class is designed for a group of 4-6 children who need a little extra help learning to ride their bike. Members do not need to be KidVentures clients. Many children who attend bike group resist coming to the first session or are nervous about attending the group. This is perfectly normal, so please don’t let fearfulness about bike riding deter you from signing up your child. We provide a VERY safe and secure environment and approach to bike riding and your child will go at a comfortable pace. The most important part of bike group is that your child feels safe and has FUN!
Led By
Jen Thomas and KidVentures Staff
What to Bring
Children are required to bring a bicycle without training wheels, a helmet, and a water bottle. Please adjust the seat height on the bicycle so that your child’s feet touch the ground with ease.
**If you are planning on buying a new bike for your child prior to this class, we suggest buying a cheaper one (from somewhere like Target) to learn on. It is better to get a bike a little on the smaller side, where at the lowest setting your child can sit comfortably on the bike and have both feet flat on the ground. Please don’t hesitate to call us if you have any questions.
When
Mondays and Fridays 3:30-4:30p April 22- May 10th, 2019
Cost
$325. Payment for the class series is required upon registration in order to hold your spot. This group is not reimbursable by insurance.
Bike Skills Classes
Who
kids ages 5 years and older
Description
Individual one-on-one sessions for kids who want to learn to ride their bikes or need extra help with advanced bike skills
Led By
Jennifer Thomas, MS, OTR or Angie Balmer, OTR
What to Bring
• Helmet
• Water bottle
• Bike without training wheels
• Please adjust seat so that child’s feet can touch the ground with ease
**If you are planning on buying a new bike for your child prior to this class, we suggest buying a cheaper one (from somewhere like Target) to learn on. It is better to get a bike a little on the smaller side, where at the lowest setting your child can sit comfortably on the bike and have both feet flat on the ground. Please don’t hesitate to call us if you have any questions.
We encourage you to drop your child off and return 10 minutes before the end of the session to see what he/she has learned that day and can practice at home for the week. You are also welcome to wait in the KidVentures waiting room.
When
TBD according to child and therapist schedules
Cost
75$ for each 30min one-on-one session