Individual and small group therapy sessions address speech-language needs of our students. Lionsgate’s Speech-Language Pathologists lead social competency groups, provide push-in social skills services in the general education setting, and address speech-language needs in the area of literacy through our Success Language Arts classes.
Here are some examples of targeted goal areas that are individualized to the needs of each student:
Receptive & Expressive Language
- Comprehension and expression of spoken and written language
- Abstract, inferential, and figurative language
- Verbal reasoning and processing
- Following directions
- Vocabulary
- Nonverbal communication
Cognition
- Auditory and verbal working memory
- Sequencing
- Problem solving
- Executive functioning
- Memory
Social Competency
- Perspective taking
- Non-verbal cues
- Social problem solving
- Identifying emotions
- Initiating and maintaining conversation
- Understanding humor
- Self-advocacy
