By Mark Le Messurier and Madhavi Nawana Parker
Ages 5 – 9 years
WHAT’S THE BUZZ?
What’s the Buzz is a 16 lesson highly structured, role-play and play-based program that is designed to teach children how to think socially and make friendship work.
The program engages children into feeling friendship together, it connects young people and offers them the skills to belong.
Who is it for?
It is for ALL children, and particularly for those who struggle to make friends, to fit in socially and to smoothly navigate their social and emotional worlds.
What’s the Buzz? has proven particularly helpful for children identified with:
Autism
ADHD and ADD
Specific Learning Difficulties
Language Disorder
Non Verbal Learning Disorder
Auditory Processing Disorder; and,
Anxiety difficulties.
Course Outline
What’s the Buzz is held over a 16 week period over 2 Terms. Each unit/session runs for 45 minutes. Each session has a number of required resources, which will be provided along with folders, course material and information sheets for both the young people and the parents.
Course Units
Lesson 1: Meeting friends and discovering differences
Lesson 2: Joining in
Lesson 3: Sharing and Taking Turns
Lesson 4: Cooperation
Lesson 5: Waiting
Lesson 6: Making it better
Lesson 7: Winning and Losing Gracefully
Lesson 8: Fact or Opinion – Staying friendly over different ideas
Lesson 9: Working with Feelings
Lesson 10: Angry Feelings
Lesson 11: Building healthy bodies, happy minds, steady feelings
Lesson 12: Honesty – Telling the Truth
Lesson 13: Saying “No” – being assertive
Lesson 14: Empathy
Lesson 15: Worry – knowing about it and dealing with it
Lesson 16: Time to say goodbye
Group Numbers
What’s the Buzz program for Early Learners is run for children aged between 5 and 9. Each child’s developmental age needs to be taken into consideration when deciding who would be a good candidate for this course.
Each group has a maximum of 8 students with a 4-1 student facilitator ratio.
Cost
Cost is $997 (for non-NDIS participants) or $1197 (NDIS participants) for the complete program (16 sessions over 2 terms).
It is possible to claim NDIS funding for young people who are self-managed or plan-managed.
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