About Survey
The aim of this survey is to learn more about your child and family! Your answers to this survey will guide the group facilitator to incorporate opportunities and adjustments into programming that cater to the unique communications, relational, and play styles of the group members. Thank you for your participation!
About Social Communications GroupThe goal of our new Social Communications Group is to honor authentic social communications and interactions. The group seeks to support communication development, self-advocacy, self-determination, perspective-taking, and problem solving through child-led play, movement, and sensory opportunities. Objectives include
- Building upon strengths
- Learning how our body gives us clues about our emotions
- Cognitive flexibility
- Perspective-taking
- Self-Advocacy
- Boundaries and consent
- Learning differences between a “friend, friendly, and not a friend”
The Social Communications group welcomes and celebrates all forms of communication, expression, play, movement, interactions, and engagement.
About the Facilitator:
Julie Bolduc DeFilippo, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with experience across multiple settings, including schools, community, and outpatient care. She supplements her clinical expertise with lived experience as a mom of two kiddos with disabilities. Julie seeks to create spaces that center neurodiverse experiences, adaptation, self-determination, and the strength-based perspective. She specializes in working with Pathological Demand Avoidance/Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (PDA) populations as well as supporting caregivers of children with disabilities to attend to their own health and mental health needs as they navigate the stressors of caring for others.
You can find out more about Julie
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