ACES clinic sessions will help your child, through ABA, prepare for social distancing summer camps, prepare for social distance learning and prepare for changes that may occur when your child returns to school.
Summer may have just started but our weekend sessions fill up quick! Sign up your child today to claim your spot!
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During WABA (Weekend ABA) Sessions We Will:
- Meet with peers in a small group setting, no more than four (4) clients
- Re-learn how to work with others in a structured setting, get ready with those back to school skills
- Learn important social skills pertinent to physical distancing (e.g. personal space, requesting access)
- Reconnect with with friends
- Build new friendships with peers in your group
Changes That Clients Will Experience at ACES to Prepare Them for the Return to School Include:
- Staggering the beginning and end of the day
- Create work spaces at least six (6) feet apart
- Teach and model creating space and avoiding unnecessary touching
- Promote and demonstrate regular hand washing (at least 20 seconds), positive hygiene behaviors and monitor their uptake
- Encourage clients to ask questions and express their feelings with ACES staff and their parents (remember that your child may have different reactions to stress; be patient and understanding)
- Emphasize that children can do a lot to keep themselves and others safe
- Introduce the concept of social distancing (standing further away from friends, avoiding large crowds, not touching people if you don’t need to, etc.)
- Focus on good health behaviors, such as covering coughs and sneezes with the elbow and washing hands
- Help children understand the basic concepts of disease prevention and control
- Use exercises that demonstrate how germs can spread
- Have clients identify high risk behaviors and suggest modifying behaviors
- For example, a child comes to school with a cold. They sneezes and covers it with his hand. They high fives with a friend. They wipes his hands after with a handkerchief then goes to class. What did the child do that was risky? What should they have done instead?