Marlton Location: VOICE, Social Skills, and Counseling Services

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VOICE, Social Skills & Counseling

VOICE

The Project VOICE program gives teens and young adults, aged 14 and over, a meeting place to improve life skills, build interests, develop talents and discover strengths. The program welcomes those with Spectrum Disorders, other Social Learning and Social Communication challenges.

You’ll meet with us weekly to take part in job- skills training designed to target and enhance your independent life skills. We will be sampling jobs between 7 job site locations. You will have the opportunity to get involved in a series of supported, therapeutic workshops, seminars, role plays, and community projects to help prepare you to enter the work force or live an independent life.

During our adult program we will be offering a therapeutic environment that will allow your child to practice life skills, job-skill training, Activities of Daily Living, social skills, and participation in caring for our garden and farm. We are going to have a fabulous summer and look forward to growing each individual into their most independent selves.

Things we offer:
  • Job Supports
  • Job Trainings
  • Activities of Daily Living Instructions
  • Social Skills Training
  • 2 group parent trainings a month
  • Community Based Instruction
  • Group Outings
  • Group Hang-outs
  • 1:1 Staffing
  • Counseling Service
  • Cooking Class
  • Art Class

Social Skills

The focus of this program is to provide a strong foundation of concepts that are required for social success. Skills are taught through both direct teaching of concepts and real-time practice in activities planned in the group.

Our social skills programs offers kids an opportunity to learn and practice social interactions within a group of peers. With group offerings spanning from Pre-School to High School. The skills targeted vary from basic greetings and responses, unspoken rules, behavioral self-regulation, to independently navigating social situations. A variety of teaching strategies are used including direct teaching and practicing a specific skill to natural environment teaching addressing deficits as they occur.

Counseling

Cognitive and behavioral counseling services are offered at Interactive Kids. Eligible clients include children and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Depression/Mood Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders. Services offered may include individual, family, and/or group therapy. Treatment will focus on the individual needs of each client. Common areas of focus in treatment include, but are not limited to treatment planning, social skills, parent training, cognitive behavior therapy, emotion regulation, development of positive coping skills, executive functioning skills, and sibling support.

Family involvement is often critical to achieve maximum success. Parents may be asked to check in at the beginning or end of a session, or make other arrangements to share information. Family or joint sessions may be periodically held based on your child’s needs and treatment plan. When appropriate, parents may schedule an appointment time without their child present in order to discuss their child’s needs and treatment more thoroughly.