3205 Ocean Park Blvd.

Suite 120

Santa Monica, CA 90405

310.581.6430 • Fax 310.581.6433

Toddler Tunes is a “parent and me” class that combines music, movement, and hands-on activities with language themes to nurture all areas of child development. The class leader is Joe Rothstein, a licensed speech-language pathologist with specialized training in sensory integration and music education for young children. Class size is limited (typically 4-6 children) and registration is required. Come join us to sing, dance, and learn. Each session runs for 10 weeks.

Narrative Language Group

The narrative language group at Pathways is comprised of a small group of age/skill matched peers and is focused on building oral narrative skills through story books.  Narrative skills have a key role in language and overall communication development as it involves a wide range of abilities including language processing and formulation, expressive and receptive vocabulary and cognitive organization (e.g. attention and memory).  Structured story-book activities are used to develop critical oral narrative skills, and activities are tailored to individual needs.  The group context promotes awareness of social-communication rules involved in story-telling and simultaneously helps to build imagination and confidence in a social context.  The group runs for 10 weeks.

Pathways Pals

Pathways Pals teaches and facilitates social and play skills in a setting as natural as possible. The group is designed to set up fun and motivating activities during which specific social and play skills can be taught as they are occurring. The program fosters the development of skills such as: making friends, reciprocal communication, joining groups, and using verbal and nonverbal communication. Participants “learn” these new social skills in the clinic and carry that information with them for outings within the community (i.e. play dates, bowling, parks, etc.). Use of video clips allows parents and participants to observe and learn from events. Parent participation is facilitated by parent meetings and written materials; ongoing dialogue is maintained to ensure carry-over of learned skills to the home. *

The Hanen Program©

It Takes Two to Talk is a program for parents of children under 5 who have language delays. The popular program was developed by The Hanen Centre and is recognized around the world for its research into how parents communicate with their children and how the communication skills of children with language delays can improve with their parents help. This program helps a child’s parents, the most important people in their lives. A parent learns to help his or her child communicate and connect with the world around them. The program includes individual videotaped sessions of you with your child, informative and personalized classes for small groups of parents, a written assessment at the conclusion of the program and a parent guidebook. *

* Vendored by Westside Regional Center

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