Spring 2025 Speech and Language Groups
Monday, January 6, 2025 – Friday, May 9, 2025
**Closed: March 10 – 14, 2025
**Closed: Friday, April 18, 2025
Toddler Group (ages 2-4) Monday and Wednesday 9:00 – 11:00
Our Toddler Group is a classroom-based program designed for children with difficulties in their play skills, language skills (receptive and/or expressive skills), sensory/emotional regulation skills, social skills, and more. Our daily schedule may include: gym time, circle time, unstructured play times, structured play times, music time, snack time, special activity, and more. This group will focus on increasing your child’s language skills (expressive and receptive), play skills, social communication skills, emotional regulation skills, classroom skills, and more with both peers and adults through the use of a variety of evidence-based practices. Within this group, our therapists utilize the SCERTS® Model (by Prizant, Wetherby, Rubin, & Laurent) combined with elements from More Than Words and It Takes Two to Talk (The Hanen Center®), and more. Children that would be a nice fit for this group are kids that may be language delayed, language disordered, have difficulties with their social communication skills, have difficulties with their play skills, and more. This group has a classroom ratio of 1 speech pathologist, speech pathologist assistant, or speech pathologist graduate clinician to 2 kids. Spaces limited to 3 children.
Preschool Group (ages 3-6) Monday and Wednesday 9:00 – 11:00
Our Preschool Group is a classroom-based program designed for children with difficulties in their play skills, language skills (receptive and/or expressive skills), sensory/emotional regulation skills, social skills, and more. Our daily schedule may include: gym time, circle time, unstructured play times, structured play times, music time, snack time, special activity, and more. This group will focus on increasing your child’s language skills (expressive and receptive), play skills, social communication skills, emotional regulation skills, classroom skills, and more with both peers and adults through the use of a variety of evidence-based practices. Within this group, our therapists utilize the SCERTS® Model (by Prizant, Wetherby, Rubin, & Laurent) combined with elements from More Than Words and It Takes Two to Talk (The Hanen Center®), elements of Social Thinking® (by Michelle Garcia Winner), and more. Children that would be a nice fit for this group are kids that may be language delayed, language disordered, have difficulties with their social communication skills, have difficulties with conversation, have difficulties with their play skills, and more. This group has a classroom ratio of 1 speech pathologist, speech pathologist assistant, or speech pathologist graduate clinician to 3 kids. Spaces limited to 6 children.
Toddler Group (ages 2-4) Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 – 11:00
Our Toddler Group is a classroom-based program designed for children with difficulties in their play skills, language skills (receptive and/or expressive skills), sensory/emotional regulation skills, social skills, and more. Our daily schedule may include: gym time, circle time, unstructured play times, structured play times, music time, snack time, special activity, and more. This group will focus on increasing your child’s language skills (expressive and receptive), play skills, social communication skills, emotional regulation skills, classroom skills, and more with both peers and adults through the use of a variety of evidence-based practices. Within this group, our therapists utilize the SCERTS® Model (by Prizant, Wetherby, Rubin, & Laurent) combined with elements from More Than Words and It Takes Two to Talk (The Hanen Center®), and more. Children that would be a nice fit for this group are kids that may be language delayed, language disordered, have difficulties with their social communication skills, have difficulties with their play skills, and more. This group has a classroom ratio of 1 speech pathologist, speech pathologist assistant, or speech pathologist graduate clinician to 2 kids. Spaces limited to 3 children.
Pre-K Group (ages 4-6) Tuesday and Thursday 9:00-11:00
Our Pre-K Group is a classroom-based program designed for children with difficulties in their play skills, language skills (receptive and/or expressive skills), sensory/emotional regulation skills, social skills, early academic skills, attention skills, and more. Our daily schedule for this group may include: gym, circle, play, snack, math, language, writing, music, and more. This group will place an emphasis on pre-literacy skills, pre-writing skills, and early math concepts to help prepare them for pre-k, kindergarten, and 1st grade. This group will focus on increasing your child’s language skills (expressive and receptive), play skills, social communication skills, emotional regulation skills, classroom skills, early academic skills, and more with both peers and adults through the use of a variety of evidence-based practices. Within this group our therapists utilize the SCERTS® Model (by Prizant, Wetherby, Rubin, and Laurent) combined with elements of Social Thinking® (by Michelle Garcia Winner), and more. This group has a classroom ratio of 1 speech pathologist, speech pathologist assistant, or speech pathologist graduate clinician to 3 kids. Spaces limited to 6 children.
Friendship Camp Groups
These groups focus on building and sustaining relationships by increasing each child’s pragmatic skills, executive functioning skills, emotional regulation skills, and more (within structured play, unstructured play, conversation, and more) as well as language within a variety of child-centered socialization activities. Within these groups, we also focus on increasing our Theory of Mind skills through a variety of approaches including: SCERTS©, concepts taken from Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Detective©, Superflex©, and more. The ratio for each group is 1 speech pathologist, speech pathologist assistant, or speech pathologist graduate clinician to 6 kids.
● Group 1 (ages 5-7): 5:30 – 6:30 on Mondays (17 sessions)
● Group 2 (ages 5-7): 5:30 – 6:30 on Tuesdays (17 sessions)
● Group 3 (ages 8-10): 5:30 – 6:30 on Tuesdays (17 sessions)
● Group 4 (ages 11-14): 5:30 – 6:30 on Mondays (17 sessions)
● Group 5 (ages 10-13): 5:30 – 6:30 on Wednesday (17 sessions)
● Group 6 (ages 14-17): 5:30 – 6:30 on Wednesdays (17 sessions)
● Group 7 (ages 15-18): 6:30-7:30 on Thursdays (17 sessions)
Home School Helpers, Homework Helpers, Language & Literacy, Shadowing Services, School Consulting, Parent Consulting & Home Consulting
Both of these are wonderful programs that are 100% individualized for each family’s need. Please see our website for more details on these programs.
All groups are individualized for each child and the group as a whole: language (expressive and receptive skills), social communication, emotional regulation, sensory, play, social play, executive functioning, and more. The details of groups are not 100% planned until registration is complete – as everything is 100% tailored to the children enrolled in the group. There is a $100 registration fee for each group (plus the tuition payment). Tuition may be paid in three ways: 1) All at once on the first day of group; 2) Paid in 4 equal payments due in January, February, March and April; OR 3) Paid weekly.
Participants within a two day a week groups will receive a treatment plan and progress report. Participants within a one day a week group have the option to receive a monthly note at an additional cost of $250.
Mandatory group participation requirements: If your child is NOT a current client of KidSpeak, LLC, they must participate within a Speech and Language Evaluation (2 hours - $475). All children that participate within any group must participate within at least one individual session per week at an additional charge.
Registration is due by Friday, December 13, 2025
For more information please contact Amanda Rollins, MS, CCC-SLP at 214-636-0871 or at amanda@kidspeakdallas.com.