Teaching 6 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Dear Donors,

We appreciate your financial support during a COVID-19 pandemic time. We would like to inform you that Penndco follows federal and state guidance on COVID-19 health and safety practices. 

We are working with our children by using available technology for family and their child. We support our families in each step of child's development by providing the valuable recommendations for every child and every parent. 

Daniil's parents shared that his son after three months of teletherapy lost his beginning social skills. David's father reported that family gets a lot of support and knowledge during our teletherapy. Roman's grandmother appreciates all supporters to get a teletherapy for her grandchild. 

All children and their parents are waiting to come back to our classroom to continue to participate in person activities. Developing social skills is our main goal, and we hope to see our all children in a safe and healthy environment. 

Our special thank you is following to all Penndco Donors and Supporters. 

Sincerely,

Tetyana Varenychenko

Dear our Donors,

During this time of respiratory illness including coronavirus and flu, community programs for children are taking extra precautions to ensure the continued health and safety of those served and those who provide services. Penndco therapists provide tele-intervention services for our children and their parents or family members by using the following technology applications such as Zoom, Skype, Viber, Face Time or phone conversations. We understand how important to provide opportunities to children and their parents by using some effective strategies, activities as well as suggestions especially during tele-intervention communication. Together we enjoy child's home activities by discussing child's progress and child's needs. Daniel's mother shared how important for her to participate with her child in tele-intervention program by learning new strategies how to help her son to play nicely with toys and adults at home and how to help him to follow daily routines appropriately. 

We friendly remind our parents that health and safe playtime at home is a number one priority, and we need to follow through universal precautions and Penndco illness policies. We understand how our children with autism spectrum disorder require to have the social situations for increasing their social skills and communication. We have a huge hope to come back to Penndco for enjoying with our children and families the social life and wonderful greeting time.

Thank you all Penndco donors and supporters for providing financial support during last three months. We appreciate your help always!

Thank you for your cooperation! Stay healthy and safe!

Dear our Donors,

You know that children with autism spectrum disorder play differently from other children. They like to line objects up, play by themselves, and repeat the same actions over and over. They love to roll the car or to complete the numbers puzzle. Our little boys and girls love to play with the toys. Boys prefer to play with cars, and girls enjoys a sensory zone. However, our boys and girls have a difficulty to play together by engaging in the same activity. They like to learn the letters and numbers, and they have the difficulties to share the ABC puzzle or numbers puzzle or to complete the puzzle together. They require a help to increase their social skills. They learn how to share the toy and how to take a turn. Little Daniel wants to play with a truck, and he points to truck and tries to say the word truck by pronouncing only "tr”. David reads a book On the Farm, and teacher supports him to name the farm animals and to recognize them. David talks a lot by using words, and he tries to use two word phrases.                                                                                                           We have a new girl in our classroom whose name is Maria, and she likes to play with play dough in a sensory zone. Maria enjoys all fun activities, and she asks to have a bubbles time with her. She likes oral and physical praises, and she is happy to get a hug or hi five. Teachers encourage Maria to use the simple words and sings during her play time or learning time. Maria requires prompting to follow oral directions during her classroom routines. Speech pathologist teaches Maria to use the word hi during a greeting time and to use the peers’ names. Our children love to play with textured balls, and it is a time to teach them to play cooperatively by sharing the balls. Children prefer to get a reward/snack after play time. They know they can get a cookie or fruit snack when they play nicely and use the words“please” and “thank you” or signs “please” and “thank you”. These two words we would like to address to all our supporters. 

We appreciate all our donors for supporting us with the programs for children with autism spectrum disorder. Thank you for your generous gifts for our children. 

We are glad to thank our sponsors and Penndco Board of Directors for giving us the opportunity to support our children and their families. Thank you all our donors for supporting us to buy a new Social Skills Library for our children.

Reading books with our children is a valuable way to introduce every reader to new words and ideas. Having a conversation with a child about the book is just as important. Our children have the choice to pick the favorite book. David loves Llama Llama Misses Mama, and he points to pictures. Nicholas prefers to read the book David Goes to School, and he turns the pages independently. Ilya enjoys the books about animals, and he prefers to read a 3D story. Sasha picks the book Llama Llama Red Pajama, and she names the pictures by using action words. Face to face reading is the best way to see how child understands the new words and responds to questions. Reading is fun, and we are happy to support our children to be the best readers.

We appreciate all donors for supporting our program. We plan to use our new Social Skills Library to help every child achieve her language goals.

Dear our Sponsors,

We would like to send you our super "Thank You" for supporting us in achieving our goals by teaching little children with autism spectrum disorder. Again and again we appreciate your generosity. 

Every day we learn more and more about child’s communication as well as child’s ability to understand language. All children love to play, and all of them have preferred activity or toys. For example, Illya demonstrates his interests to play with a puzzle and he uses words to express his experience. Max likes textured cards and he names the pictures during his story time.  

Building interaction during play time is our goal, and we support our children in it by providing them lots of opportunities to learn language and have fun during learning time. We have a child who is a First Words User who uses many new words combined with gestures, and mother is trying to help him to put two words together. We count every child’s word or gesture to encourage him to develop his ability to express himself during different life situations.

Penndco Families thank our sponsors for helping us in supporting our children to have a fun in learning process daily. Every child has a progress, and we ask our sponsors to continue to support us in reaching  our goals.

Sincerely,

Tetyana Varenychenko, M.ED