2024 Summer Social Learning Experience

July 8th-August 29th

Summer 2024 Application

Now Enrolling for Summer 2024

We offer in-person and remote services allowing us to serve clients across the country!

  • 1-Hour Weekly Social Groups

    Similar to our academic year program, groups meet weekly for 1 hour at our clinic in Sudbury or via Zoom. Clients are placed in small groups with similarly aged, like-minded peers. Sessions run for 6 weeks from July 8th-August 15th.

    $700/summer (6 total sessions)

  • Week-Long Immersion Groups

    Our immersive groups meet for four consecutive days (Monday to Thursday) over the course of one week from 9am to 1pm at our clinic. These groups provide a dynamic social learning experience where clients can put concepts and strategies into practice through group activities and trips into the community. We offer six sessions from July 8th to August 15th.

    $2,000/week

  • Theme-Based Groups

    Our theme-based groups provide clients with a fun way to learn about various Social Thinking concepts and frameworks. These groups meet weekly for 1.5 hours from July 8th-August 15th. Theme descriptions can be found below.

    $1,000/summer (6 total sessions)

  • Individual Sessions

    Clients can opt to meet individually with clinicians for personalized coaching via zoom or in-person. Sessions meet weekly or bi-weekly for 1 hour from July 8th-August 15th.

    Our clinicians also offer intensive individuals during the final weeks of summer (August 19-22 & 26-29) for clients who are unavailable during other summer weeks.

    $200-$250/hour

Theme-Based Groups

Our theme-based groups provide a creative way to keep students engaged while learning. Theme-based modules meet weekly for 1.5 hours. In the past, clinicians have sent home activities and kits that make remote learning just as hands-on! See dropdown menu for group descriptions.

  • Calling all secret agents! This group features exciting, hands-on, detective-themed science activities that allow members to explore forensic science, sharpen their detective skills and decode encrypted messages. Members will work as a team while using their social thinking skills to analyze information and make connections. Agents will become super detectives!

  • Looking for America’s next top bakers and chefs! If you love the popular cooking shows, Teen Chef, Next Great Baker, Cupcake Wars, and Top Chef, this is the group for you. While cooking together as a team, participants will build their social competencies by using perspective taking, flexible thinking, and collaboration. Recipes and ingredients will be shipped to members’ homes weekly. Mini cooking challenges will be held daily!

  • Attention all early learners! Let your imaginations run wild through pretend play, building projects, exciting literature, and exploration. Take a trip to the moon, build a restaurant, become a pirate, or go camping at your favorite park! Core Social Thinking concepts will include practice around: group plan, body in the group, brain in the group, flexible thinking, and shared imagination.

  • Inviting aspiring inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs! Come join us for a summer of hands-on projects and fun! Sessions will focus on STEM activities that include art, building projects, and design challenges. Work closely with group members and use creative problem-solving skills to develop exciting new inventions with team members.

  • Calling all early learners ~ come share and grow your imagination with like-minded peers. These magical sessions will bring stories and imaginations alive through dramatic play, art projects, sequencing activities, drama, and music.

  • Seeking all aspiring magicians! Come join a team and engage in magic tricks, circus acts, yoga, and creative design. Concepts covered will include collaboration, problem-solving, shared imagination, and creativity. The final session will include an exciting magic show for family members and friends, showcasing the talents of the individuals and groups!

  • The social world is steeped in hidden rules, unspoken expectations, and social hierarchies that can feel daunting. This makes it hard to know how to maneuver through the social world. These sessions are designed to bring like-minded peers together and teach proactive strategies to manage anxiety and life's daily stressors.

  • Executive functioning is at the heart of our daily functioning across all places in which we learn, play, and work. It affects almost everything we do and can deeply impact one's success in the social, academic, and job world. Participants will learn specific strategies to help strengthen their organized thinking and help improve organizational skills for daily life.

  • Tweens and teens face real and pressing social challenges such as managing social anxiety, making friends, dealing with bullies, understanding body language, filtering thoughts, fitting in, and much more. This session brings similar-age students together and provides support and strategies for those in or entering middle school.

  • Teens will take a deep dive around Michelle Garcia-Winner and Pamela Crooke’s guidebook; Socially Curious, Curiously Social. This session is designed to help teens and young adults sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, and everyday relationships with targeted strategies. Books are provided for all participants.

  • Calling all motivated learners that are seeking more independence. Middle and early high schoolers will work on learning new skills anchored in the levels of independence. Sessions will introduce each level of independence and students will begin to practice navigating these levels.

  • Reading comprehension is much more than decoding words! A substantial component of reading comprehension is social interpretation, and this process is reliant on a student’s social competencies. This summer, come explore the relationship between Social Thinking and reading. We will explore, discuss, and dissect different focus areas. Some examples are: character’s perspectives, intention reading, social inferencing, visualizing, making connections, flexible thinking, and many more concepts!

Interested? Apply Now!