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Our Social Emotional Learning Groups

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All of our group therapy programs at Yellow Door Kids support our children to connect and have fun while practising the following..

Being in a group

  • Sharing space and toys alongside peers

  • Learning way we might make a plan with friends

  • Self advocating in collaboration and negotiation

  • Noticing what is happening around us

  • Identifying a problem and solving it with friends

  • Practising understanding another person’s perspective and vice versa

  • Understanding our own physical boundaries with peers

  • Positive self identity- finding a sense of self whilst in a group

  • Creative expression, through music, dance, art and story telling

  • Playing with neurodiverse peers- free play and expression.

 

Play

  • Practising games we might play in the school yard

  • Practising how we might join in play with peers

  • Practising noticing if a peer is asking us to play

  • Practising inviting peers into our own play if we want them to join in

  • Sharing our creativity/ideas in play (mutual high interest)

  • In games, learning about what we need to support ourselves if something unexpected happens or we lose

  • Increased opportunities for supported connected play with peers

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Conversation

  • In a mutual high interest topic, practising options for how we might add a comment or ask a question if we want to

  • Practising strategies to extend our conversation if we are interested in it and want to keep it going with a friend

  • Practising how to know when it feels right for us to join in a conversation between other people if we want to

  • Self advocating if there is a communication breakdown

  • Brainstorming how we might start a conversation about a high interest topic with a peer

  • Using our communication styles to get to know someone we want to be friends with

  • Understanding that everyone has a different communication style and that's okay.

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Emotional regulation 

  • Understanding our own physical/sensory triggers in social settings

  • Self- advocacy- Increasing our ability to support ourselves in tricky situations (such as disappointment at losing a game, frustration, following rules, significant anxiety/distress at new tasks/making a mistake, meeting new peers, unpredictability)

  • Knowing what we need to stay sensory safe

  • Noticing what is going on for us inside our bodies (escalation/de-escalation and awareness of triggers can be ( internal and external)

  • Practising asking for what we need

  • Increasing our emotional awareness 

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Our social learning groups are run fortnightly all through the year. They have 4 - 8 children in each group. We practise our social learning though music, play, games, books, craft, lego and high interest activities.

To find out more about our Social Emotional Learning Groups, please reach out to us.

👉 Contact Us

ADDRESS

42 Sydney Rd, Coburg, Melbourne 3058

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OPENING HOURS

 

Tuesday-Saturday 9:00am-6.30pm

 

© 2016 by Yellow Door Kids Therapy Pty Ltd.

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​At Yellow Door Kids, we recognise and respect the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung  people as the traditional owners of the land on which we work, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water, and community. We pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and to their Elders, past and present.

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