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Origami Social Thinking Groups
Summer, 2008
“When the paper folds the mind unfolds”
When: Two Sessions
July 28 - August 1st in Falmouth
August 18- 22 in Freeport
Instructors: Barbara Baum Freethy, M.Ed., Educational Therapist
Karen Lambert, CCC-SLP, Speech Pathologist
Who Should Attend: These programs are designed for children and
adolescents with visual spatial strengths and social cognitive
challenges.
Cost:
$300 per session (each session is 2 hours/day for five days)
For more information contact:
Barbara Baum Freethy at transdis@verizon.net or 846-8643
Karen Lambert at 712-9101
This Program will also be posted on Transdisciplinary Workshops, Inc.
web site: www.transdis.com
See the next page for more information on the Program!
Emphasis of Program: Along with teaching origami skills, the focus will be placed on
social thinking skills developed in MIchelle Garcia Winner’s “ILAUGH” Curriculum. This
is includes:
• Initiating novel activities: learning how to start behaviors necessary to
have social communication
• Listening actively: improving auditory processing deficits
• Abstracting and inferencing: working on the non literal aspects of language
• Understanding perspective: thinking about others and how others are
thinking about you
• Gestalt: getting the big picture
• Humor: using humor to break the barriers of insecurity and establish a level
on which all can relate
Therapeutic benefits of Origami
The Theragmi™ method, developed by Hagit Shalev, is based on the use of Origami to
achieve vital academic, cognitive and therapeutic skills. Below is a list of partial
academic and cognitive skills involving Origami.
Listening Skills
Reading Skills
Writing Skills
Mathematics
Spatial Relationship
Social Studies
Sequential Memory
Concentration
Eye-Hand Coord.
Fine Motor Skills
Visual Memory
Visual-Spatial Motor Skills
Verbal and Visual Memory
Logical Reasoning
Problem Solving
Creating origami, whether it be one piece simple sculpture or 30 piece complex
geometric shapes, has a therapeutic effect on children. Many folders have found
Origami to be an inherently relaxing activity and its use as a stress reduction
technique. It is an ideal milieu for building social thinking skills in small groups as
children and adolescents master a new shapes together.
About the Instructors
Barbara Baum Freethy is an educational therapist at Touchstone
Psychotherapy Associates. She has 35 years of experience working with children
and families. Currently, the focus of Barbara’s work is on individual and group
social thinking programs for children and adults with ADHD, Learning Disabilities,
and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. She provides training on the use of the
Collaborative Problem Solving Approach for explosive/noncompliant children and
adolescents. Barbara has been making origami for the past 12 years and uses
the art of paper folding in her sessions with clients.
Karen Lambert has worked as a speech/language pathologist for the past 20
years. She brings a wide range of experience from working in the field of early
intervention for then years, and specializing in providing evaluation and
intervention services for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Over the past
five years, she has worked with school-aged children with language learning
disabilities, Asperger's Syndrome, and Nonverbal learning disabilities. She is
eclectic in her therapeutic approach employing a variety of strategies that
support social cognition and personal growth including therapeutic yoga, art,
music, and drama.