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

For more information about this program or to register your child into an upcoming group, please contact Degan at The Montreal Fluency Centre, 514-489-4320 ext 237.

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, and phonological awareness. The group also coaches parents to implement the program objectives at home.

Social Skills Group – Adolescents

Weekly Social Language and Social Thinking group for ages 13-15.  Social communication skills often pose a challenge for teens at the high-end of the autism spectrum or with Asperger Syndrome and other social learning difficulties.  This group is based on programs developed by Michelle Garcia Winner, SLP, and targets age-appropriate social skills in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere

Fundamentals for Literacy Enhancement (FLITE) – Reading and Writing Programs

Groups currently being offered: (click to download brochure)

FLITE Level A: Take Off

  • learning the alphabet and sounds of the letters
  • rhyming words
  • remembering words to familiar songs
  • reciting nursery rhymes
  • engaging in stories
  • speech and language development
  • early reading at school
  • writing their name and common words

FLITE Level B: Up!

This stage of the FLITE program is designed for the child with:

  • slow and effortful reading
  • weak spelling
  • inadequate mastery of phonics rules
  • reliance on memorization for reading and spelling
  • trouble writing good sentences and stories
  • weak reading fluency
  • difficulty understanding what they read
  • inability to do homework independently

FLITE Level C: Soar

Students who are appropriate for this level of FLITE need help with:

  • understanding what they read
  • being able to ‘read between the lines’
  • appreciating figurative language
  • succinctly summarizing text
  • expressing thoughts & ideas clearly in writing
  • developing & using effective, efficient strategies for coping with the reading/writing expectations of school FLITE services include: 1. Evaluations – Individual therapy, 2.Group programs – Summer intensive programs, and 3.School consultations – Workshops for parents, teachers and other professionals

To register or get more information, please call the Montreal Fluency Center
Phone: 514-489-4320

Email: info@montrealfluency.com

The Montreal Fluency Centre is a not-for-profit organization and can offer bursaries for programme fees.

* Fee subject to change if enrollment is less than 5 students; programme subject to cancellation if enrollment is too low.