What your child will learn:
- Social skills – Sharing, taking turns, and engaging in conversations.
- Transitions – Waiting patiently and transitioning smoothly with a peer between activities and locations.
- Communication – Making requests of adults and peers, expanding receptive and expressive language, answering questions.
- Play & leisure skills – Playing games with a peer, using toys appropriately, engaging in parallel and interactive play, and practicing peer imitation.
- Classroom routine – Sitting with a peer, attending to others, following instructions, completing routines, working independently, and self-management.
- Daily living skills – Kitchen safety, personal hygiene, dressing, household chores, plus street and personal safety.
- Academic skills – Reading, writing, math, reading comprehension, and typing.
Program details:
- 6 months (starting in April or October)
- Monday-Friday 9-11:30 AM or 1-3:30 PM
- 2 sessions per week, minimum
- For cost, please call 416-289-0100, ext. 107
*There’s no separate fee for phone and in-person assessments.
Eligibility:
Your child is ready for the ABA Dyad Program, if they can:
- Tolerate sitting at a table or on the floor near peers
- Self-regulate with minimal redirection
- Request preferred items (via gestures, vocal language, or an augmentative communication system)
- Respond to their name
- Transition away from a parent with minimal difficulty
- Transition between activities and locations (stay with their peer with minimal redirection)
- Display minimal challenging behaviors
