Services for Preschoolers
Transforming Social Trajectories
Learning Seeds coaches preschool-age children who struggle with positive social engagement.
We offer in-person services directly to children in the Boston area.
We also offer remote services and a library of resources to reach children, parents, and caregivers beyond our geographic area.
We help parents plan, understand, and respond.
We can help you observe challenging behavior through a lens of optimism and agency.
To learn more about the services on this page or to explore further how Learning Seeds can support your child, please reach out to schedule a call with us.
In-Person Services
We apply our unique approach to cultivating social engagement every day as we work directly with children in the Boston metropolitan area.
Located in the Boston area? Learn about our in-person services here.
Remote Services
To extend our reach beyond in-person service in the Boston metropolitan area, Learning Seeds leverages virtual communication channels to provide unique, specialized services for children and parents.
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Remote Play Sessions (STEM Pretend)
During our remote play sessions we work with children on collaboration, pretend, and play skills. For these sessions, Zoom is our playground, and STEM and coding activities are tools used to make the space highly visual and entertaining.
Consultations with Learning Seeds Enlightened Shadows
One-time Consultation
For either established clients or new clients to discuss a plan for a child’s IEP meeting, a concern a family might have, or for advice, tips, or strategies for a child’s behaviors seen at school or home.
Monthly or Quarterly Consultations
A regular monthly or quarterly meeting for long-distance or waitlisted clients, and for established clients.
We offer a free consultation to families referred to us by a provider in our provider network.
Contact us to schedule a consultation or to check if your provider is part of our network.
Note to Providers: If you are an Early Intervention Specialist, Developmental Pediatrician, or Neuropsychologist interested in being in our network of providers, please contact us. When a provider in our network refers a family to us, the family is eligible for a free consultation (guaranteed to be scheduled within eight weeks of the initial request). After the complimentary consultation, the family has zero obligation to sign up for Learning Seeds services.
Learning Seeds Resource Library
We’re on a mission to help caring adults we won’t be able to meet transform the social trajectories of children we won’t personally teach.
Explore our Resource Library, where you can learn how to observe a child’s social engagement through our Lens and approach teachable moments with optimism and agency.
Learn more about the unique Engagement Lens through which Learning Seeds observes, guides, and transforms a child’s social habits.
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Our services are for children in preschool. Most of our students are between two-years-old and five-years-old.
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Learning Seeds does not require any particular diagnosis to participate in our services. We work with two to five-year-olds with social and communication struggles. Our students benefit from play and social skills coaching to help them increase their social connections.
We work with children who are sometimes perceived as struggling, shy, rambunctious, or hard to engage. We also have experience with children with a variety of social and communication diagnoses including Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Executive function disorder (EFD), Nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD), etc.
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Because our philosophy is to support children in inclusive settings, we do not have a clinic and we do not offer social skills groups. We work with children in their local communities in settings where a child spends time, such as a neighborhood playground, school, afterschool program, or camp.
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For parents with a concern about their child’s ability to engage socially and make friends, we offer a one-hour consultation to brainstorm priorities and solutions. Consultations are an opportunity to discuss the behaviors parents see at home and/or at school. The conversation will focus on strengths-based, motivational strategies for families to ‘try and see’ instead of ‘waiting and seeing’. Contact us to request a consultation.
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Reach out to us as soon as possible because options are limited once expulsion is imminent.
Learning Seeds has had success with averting preschool expulsions when there is enough time to implement a robust school program in which we can work with a child, their family, and the school staff. Contact us to request a consultation.
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Learning Seeds specializes in working with children who withdraw or isolate from groups. We work with children to enable them to have positive social experiences, build more self-efficacy, and deepen their sense of identity within the context of a group. Reach out to us as soon as possible when your school lets you know your child is struggling because options are limited if expulsion becomes imminent.
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Reach out to us as soon as possible when your school lets you know your child is having conflicts. It’s better to reach out sooner because options are limited once expulsion becomes imminent. Learning Seeds works with children to enable them to have positive social experiences, build more self-efficacy, and deepen their sense of identity within the context of a group.
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Learning Seeds does not offer neuropsychological evaluations. We know psychologists in the Boston area that do conduct neuropsych evaluations and other testing. Contact us for information.
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Families hire Learning Seeds to provide play support for their child. These playdates are part of our package of services. The child sometimes invites a peer to join in the playdate!
Hosted by a parent of a Learning Seeds child, you and your child will simply get to enjoy a playdate that often has more giggles, more cooperation, and smoother transitions, thanks to the active support of our expert play coach.
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Send us a message and let us know a bit about your child.
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We are a private pay company and do not accept insurance.