Hospital & Health Care - Los Angeles, California, United States
Social Scouts™ is a social-pragmatic language program for children struggling with social skills and peer-to-peer interactions. The Social Scouts™ program is designed to treat children with social communication deficits. Lessons are planned and taught exclusively by Master's level, CA licensed, and ASHA certified speech-language pathologists. Our unique multi-modal approach implements puppetry, books, play, social stories, video-taping, role playing, etc. to enhance not only social cognition and social language skills but also imaginary and dramatic play skills.A large focus is also placed on stimulating imagination and teaching dramatic play skills. This has inspired the founders of the Social Scouts™ program to write/create a series of books based on the fundamental skills of imaginary play. Their first book published, Think & Play the Social Scouts Way™: Firefighter Leo to the Rescue!, is an interactive reading adventure for children ages 3-7 intended to stimulate imagination and dramatic play. Vibrant illustrations, thematic based vocabulary and bonus cut-out sequence pictures help children with all different learning styles follow along and join in with Leo as he pretends to be a firefighter. This book can be used successfully with one child or within a group setting. Both children and adults alike will love to Think & Play the Social Scouts Way™!