9:00 - Liam arrives for his first session and is greeted in the lobby by Christine, his first behavior technician. Liam loves bubbles, so Christine takes Liam to the gross motor play space to start his day with bubbles and swings. Liam is still learning how to play around peers, so they practice playing on the slide with his friends from his Early Learners group.

10:00 - Today is a music therapy group day, so Mallory, the music therapist, comes to the classroom to lead songs and dancing for everyone. Liam is working on developing language, so Mallory pauses in the music and lets him fill in the words to his favorite songs. After music, is snack at a table with his friends where they eat together and then go to free play to move their bodies.

11:00 - Liam and Christine sit down to play with trains. Liam loves playing with trains, and today he lines them up in a row. Christine encourages him to let each train race down the track they built together and crash into some bricks. Each of the trains get a turn! Liam isn’t quite ready to be done with the trains yet so they take a train with them to the sensory play area, where Liam and his friends are able to drive the trains through different types of messy foods like yogurt and applesauce as he works on exposure to new food textures through play.

12:00 - During lunch, Liam eats with his peers and works on eating new foods like carrots before finishing with a tasty cookie. Christine loves to create opportunities to point to their friends foods and share what their friends are eating, providing opportunities for expanding his language. After lunch, is a fun recess opportunity for Liam to run around and play games around his friends.

1:00 - Chris, another behavior technician, takes over to spend the afternoon with Liam. They’ve spent most of the morning playing with peers, so after lunch they spend some focused time working on goals from Liam’s individualized treatment plan while playing with stacking cups, large building block, toy cars, and sensory bins where Liam attempts to find surprises in a bin full of rice.

3:00 - Liam and Chris work on cleaning up and learning how to put his shoes and socks on by himself. Liam walks Chris to his speech therapy session, where his mom and speech therapist are waiting together in the Daily Living Skills Area to work on how they can incorporate language opportunities into his routine at home.

9:00 - Sydney arrives for her morning session in the Foundations group and is greeted in the lobby by Danielle, her first behavior interventionist of the day. Prior to entering the room Danielle assists Sydney in hanging her backpack on the wall, a skill Sydney's occupational therapist, Jenny, has been supporting her develop in collaboration with the ABA team. Upon entering the room Sydney greets her friends and staff with "hi" or a wave, one of her social goals the ABA team and speech therapist have collaborated on.

10:00 - Sydney joins her friends on the floor for circle time led by James, another behavior interventionist in the Foundations group. This week they have a new letter and number of the week and the group is learning a new song called “5 Speckled Frogs”. As they sing the song together the Sydney and her friends are imitating the gross motor movements James is demonstrating with the lyrics. After circle time, Sydney is excited to eat her snack and sites at the table next to her friend Bella.

11:00 - After snack, Sydney and her friends are split into smaller groups that rotate between arts and crafts, pretend play with farm animals and a barn, and sensory play. Sydney loves the art and craft station especially getting to use finger paints to color the pumpin they made for Halloween week. The next activity is reading, led by Danielle, in which Sydney and her friends sit down to listen to Danielle read a Boom Chicka Boom Numbers book. Sydney likes to get up to move her body during the reading and after a couple spins she walks back and sits at her seating spot.

12:00 - Sydney is really excited to sit next to her friend, Bella, at lunch. Sydney points to Bella's lunch box, which is Bluey-themed, and says "Bingo!" Bella shares the enjoyment and lifts up her lunch box to show Sydney and the group. For lunch, Sydney has been learning to pierce small pieces of foods and feed herself and today she used a fork to eat a peach independently. After snack Sydney and Bella join their friends in recess where they ride scooter boards around the clinic.

1:00 - Anna, another behavior interventionist, takes over to spend the afternoon with Sydney. Anna is also joined with Charlie, a buddy from Cortica's Buddy Program for parallel play. Sydney and Charlie are paired together for parallel play where they each play with their own puzzles and sometimes Charlie points at Sydney's puzzle and asks "What's that?" Sydney often responds with different names of the animals in her puzzle. After parallel play Sydney and Charlie transition to the Daily Living Skills Area to practice using utensils, putting laundry in the washer/dryer, and putting on and fastening outerwear and shoes.

3:00 - Sydney and Charlie end their day cleaning up the Foundations room. Today, there was enough time for Sydney to support clean up in the Early Learner's room before getting picked up by her caregiver.

9:00 - Carter arrives for her morning session and is greeted in the lobby by Connor, her first behavior interventionist of the day. Before entering the room, Carter hangs his backpack outside the room on a hook and greets his friends who just arrived. The first activity of the day is an obstacle course, led by the occupational therapist, Jenny, in which Carter works with his friends to build the course then takes turns running, climbing, and jumping their way through it.

10:00 - Once a week, Carter is partnered with a buddy as part of Cortica's Buddy Program, and the buddy will join in all activities throughout the day. Today's buddy is Jeremiah, who Carter made immediate friends with during last week's freeze tag activity. Carter and his buddy join the group on the floor for circle time led by Stef, a music therapist. Stef engages the group in a variety of songs and social games. Today is one of Carter's friend's birthday, so Stef had each group member play an instrument and sing a Happy Birthday song to Steven.

11:00 - Carter and his buddy join the group in a small snack in which they share their favorite snacks and juices. Carter likes to share his favorite snack is a fruit snack, specifically the Black Forest one, as he holds up the bag to show the group which one he likes the most. After snack, Carter and his buddy, Jeremiah, transition to cooperative buddy play where Carter and Jeremiah play a cooperative board game (Race to the Treasure), build a fort with large building blocks, and race cars on a pretend city map.

12:00 - After cooperative play with his buddy, Carter's speech thearpist, Jared, pushes-in during lunch. Carter really likes to talk to his friends and Jared supports by helping Carter start conversations and find topics everyone is excited to talk about together.

1:00 - Carter and his friends are joined with neuortypical peers in a scavenger hunt in which they work with small teams to find nautical-themed items around the clinic. After the scavenger hunt they join together for an art and craft activity at a table where their neurotypical peers join in creating a long caterpillar using toilet paper rings. At the end of the activity the group takes turns walking the caterpillar around the clinic sharing their creation with other groups.

2:00 - Today, Carter and Jeremiah join in the Social Group room with 2 of his friends who recently graduated the Kindergarten Readiness group and his neurotypical peers for a focused social group opportunity. During this social group Carter and his friends take learn new social skills during a variety of fun group activities. During a craft activity, Carter made a friendship bracelet for Jeremiah and put a bead with a "J" on it. After making friendship bracelets the group played emotion charades, in which Carter acted out excited by jumping and throwing his hands in the air with an open mouth smile.

3:00 - Carter and Jeremiah are picked up by their caregivers and go home after a fun and busy day in the Kindergarten Readiness group and Social Group.