Speech & Language Group Treatment

Preschool Social Language Group

The Montreal Fluency Centre’s Preschool Social Language Group is an 8-week program which focuses on improving the children’s social communication skills in a fun and natural environment. A series of activities are centered around a new theme each week.
Group goals include:

• Attention
• Listening
• Turn-taking
• Appropriate Eye-contact
• Following Instructions
• Establishing and Maintaining a Topic
• Repairing Communication Breakdown
• Asking for and Giving Information
• Initiating Play with Peers
• Playing Appropriately with Others
• Strategies for implementing goals at home provided

Emergent Literacy – 4-5 year olds

Language and literacy development are closely related. Emergent Literacy is the first stage of literacy development and current research shows that it is very important in the development of reading.  Successful beginning readers develop concepts about print at an early age, prior to entering school. This group focuses on all areas of Emergent Literacy, including:

• Oral language
• Emergent writing
• Print knowledge
• Alphabet knowledge
• Phonological awareness.
• Parent education
• Home program provided

Oral Narrative Group

The small group will focus on improving the children’s language through the use of literacy-related activities which target oral language skills in the area of narratives, or storytelling. Narrative is a significant academic link between the language of home and school as well as between oral language and written language, and it incorporates literacy, critical thinking, conversational skills, and comprehension1. Parents will observe the sessions, and coaching will be provided in order to encourage practice of skills at home.

Through the use of a visual organizer, clinician modeling and support, and multiple opportunities for practice, children will:

• Learn new words, sentence structures, and story grammar elements
•  Recall, organize, and retell the main points and details of a story or personal event
•  Infer information and predict
•  Think critically about the characters’ perspectives and motives
•  Use a variety of words to link ideas or actions together (conjunctions such as “so”, “because”, “before”, “after” and cohesive ties such as “first”, “then”, “finally”)
•  Use a variety of “feeling” and “thinking” words to describe emotional and cognitive states of characters

Oral/Social Language Group

The group will focus on improving the children’s communication skills in a fun and natural environment. There will be a series of activities centered around a new theme each day. Group goals will include:

Oral language: story telling/summarizing, following and giving directions, vocabulary expansion, describing a procedure

Social language: attention, listening, turn-taking, eye-contact, establishing and maintaining a topic, repairing communication breakdowns

As well, emphasis will be placed on initiating peer interactions, cooperating appropriately with others, and negotiating.

A weekly summary will be provided containing a summary of goals targeted as well as a home program to practice the skills. There will be time set aside at the end of each session for feedback and questions.

To register or get more information, please contact our intake coordinator at 514-489-4320 ext. 237 or via e-mail at info@montrealfluency.com

The Montreal Fluency Centre is a non profit clinic and offer bursaries for program fees.