Camp CHAT
(Communication Habilitation via Audition for Teens)
Camp CHAT is a weekend retreat for teens with hearing loss and their families. Campers will engage in communication activities using the latest digital wireless microphones and technology. Depending on the camp location, campers will also have the opportunity to participate in traditional camp activities such as a challenge course, trail biking, swimming, ziplining, fishing, hammock relaxing and campfire excitement.
Camp is conducted by a licensed audiologist with the support of graduate student clinicians.
Cost: $150 for 1 teen and 1 parent, $50 for additional parent/sibling.
March 8 – 10, 2019
Friday at 6:30 p.m. – Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Contact: Dr. Linda Thibodeau or call 972-898-3463.
Camp Interact
Camp Interact is a therapeutic day camp for children finishing 1st grade to 5th grades with social difficulties. Children may have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder/Asperger’s, ADHD, nonverbal learning disorder, and/or mild language impairments.
Camp Interact:
- Is specifically designed to give children with social communication deficits a chance to participate in a fun camp-like environment
- Includes drama, team-building activities, funshops and special camp activities throughout the week
- Includes individualized goals
- Incorporates each child’s goals into every part of the day
- Is conducted by licensed speech-language pathologists with the support of graduate student clinicians
- Is best suited for children who are fully conversational in home and school environments
Evaluation Requirement: An intake assessment is required for all new patients. The cost of the intake is $50 and is not insurance eligible. To schedule an assessment, please call 214-905-3630.
Cost: $500 + $75 nonrefundable enrollment fee
August 5 – 9, 2019
Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: Rachel Wehner
Camp Talk A’Lot
Camp Talk A’Lot is a group language therapy program for children ages 3 to 5 years. The program uses fun thematic units, week by week, to provide opportunities to increase language skills, as well as practice social communication with peers. Campers will have individualized goals, which will be targeted within the context of exciting preschool activities such as arts and crafts, games, motor activities, drama, songs and more. The environment allows for facilitation of skills in a highly supportive, naturalistic environment, where the support and cues can fade over time as the child becomes more independent. Camp Talk A’Lot is conducted by a licensed speech-language pathologist with the support of student clinicians.
Evaluation Requirement: An intake assessment is required for all new patients. The cost of the intake is $50 and is not insurance eligible. To schedule an assessment, please call the Richardson location at 972-883-3630.
Cost: $700 + $75 nonrefundable enrollment fee
Camp Talk A’Lot will not run this summer.
Contact: Kimberly Moran
Cochlear Implant Summer Listening Camp
The beloved week-long Cochlear Implant Camp gives children who have cochlear implants an opportunity to receive listening and speech-language therapy while participating in fun camp activities.
I love it, because it’s where you’re around other kids that are just like you. It’s where you can be yourself.
Lauren Retta, age 10
Cochlear Implant Camp serves children ages 4 to 11. Audiologists, speech-language pathologists and graduate students provide listening and speech-language therapy that is tailored to each child’s individual goals. Therapy is woven throughout each activity including rock wall climbing, fishing, music and dance, arts and crafts and water play.
“Everybody wants their child to succeed and to grow and to be a positive influence and give back someday, and I think this is going to give Lauren that direction in life.” – Michelle Retta, Lauren’s mother
“It touches my heart to see a parent that travels from Oklahoma or Arkansas or from all over just to come to this camp. There’s nothing in the area like it, and having it in our backyard has been such a blessing.” – Megan Leadingham, parent
I would like to help send a child to Cochlear Implant Camp.
Read to Succeed
Read to Succeed is a group based program designed to improve literacy skills for children entering kindergarten to first grade. Participants learn by doing and exploring literacy to create a motivating environment. Each lesson introduces a reading skill and strategy while implementing phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Individual goals are addressed for children who have been identified as “at risk” in the area of literacy. These students may also have been diagnosed with a language disorder or speech sound disorder.
Read to Succeed is led by a licensed speech-language pathologist with the support of graduate student clinicians.
Evaluation Requirement: An intake assessment is required for all new patients. The cost of the intake is $50 and is not insurance eligible. To schedule an assessment, please call the Dallas location at 214-905-3030.
Cost: $750 + $75 nonrefundable enrollment fee
2019 dates and times TBD
Contact: Sara Loving | 214-905-3603
SLICK (Summer Language Intervention Camp for Kids)
SLICK is an intensive language therapy program for children who have finished 1st grade through children who have finished 6th grade who have language and learning disorders. SLICK is conducted by a licensed speech-language pathologist with the support of graduate student clinicians.
The purpose of SLICK is to provide a fun learning environment and to build children’s language skills through literacy‐based activities. The program addresses language goals such as following directions, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, vocabulary, identifying the main idea, summarizing and
problem solving.
Evaluation Requirement: An intake assessment is required for all new patients. The cost of the intake is $50 and is not insurance eligible. To schedule an assessment, please call the Richardson location at 972-883-3630.
Cost: $700 + $75 nonrefundable enrollment fee
June 10 – July 17, 2019
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Contact: Christina Gollis
Speech Buddies
Speech Buddies is a six-week group program designed to improve intelligibility in children ages 3 to 6 years. Participants learn by doing, talking and exploring in an interactive learning environment that is communication based, activity specific and speech based.
Individual goals are addressed for children who have difficulty being understood due to speech. Students may have the following diagnosis: apraxia, severe articulation disorders or phonological disorders.
Speech Buddies is led by a licensed speech-language pathologist with the support of graduate student clinicians.
Evaluation Requirement: An intake assessment is required for all new patients. The cost of the intake is $50 and is not insurance eligible. To schedule an assessment, please call the Dallas location at 214-905-3030.
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Speech Buddies will not run this summer.
Contact: Sara Loving | 214-905-3603
