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Aquatics Center Hours

Sunday7:00 am - 5:30 pm

Monday5:15 am - 8:30 pm

Tuesday5:15 am - 8:30 pm

Wednesday5:15 am - 8:30 pm

Thursday5:15 am - 8:30 pm

Friday5:15 am - 7:30 pm

Saturday7:00 am - 5:30 pm

Fitness Center Hours

Sunday7:00 am - 6:00 pm

Monday5:15 am - 9:00 pm

Tuesday5:15 am - 9:00 pm

Wednesday5:15 am - 9:00 pm

Thursday5:15 am - 9:00 pm

Friday5:15 am - 8:00 pm

Saturday7:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Monday, April 22

Erev Passover

5:15 am - 3:00 pm
Tuesday, April 23

Passover (Day 1)

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Friday, May 24

Memorial Day

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Special Needs: Online Resources & Activities

The Shames JCC’s Department of Special Needs put together resources for our special needs program participants and anyone else who might benefit.
Social and Job Skills for Successful Transition (Virtual Presentation)

Presented by: Kirt Manecke, author of the award-winning book and online course, “Smile & Succeed for Teens: Must-Know People Skills for Today’s Wired World.”  The book has won 3 awards, including the coveted Teachers’ Choice Award, and the prestigious Mom’s Choice Gold Award honoring excellence.

Kirk held a virtual presentation to parents of teens at the JCC! Attention Parents! He went over important social and job skills to help your teen or young adult make more friends and succeed on the job. Social skills are the top factor in getting a job, according to Harvard University? Is your student prepared? These skills are critically important to get along with co-workers and supervisors and to build lasting relationships with customers, and friends. Please watch the recording of this important presentation!

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Going Beyond the School Evaluation (Virtual Presentation)
Dr. Diane Slonim, Speech and Language Pathologist, P.h.D. explains how to obtain a comprehensive speech and language evaluation to identify—and advocate for—your child’s specific needs

Schools do their best to detect speech/language issues. However, the district might not have all the resources to be able to perform all evaluations necessary to detect speech/language and reading issues. Please watch this previously recorded informative presentation to better understand which speech and language evaluations properly assess and identify speech and language and reading disorders. Click here to view the presentation.

 

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Life Skills

List of Positive Social Skills (to practice at home)

by Tricia Gressel

Sharing: Being polite and courteous (holding the door for someone, letting someone go ahead of you, using polite words (thank you and your welcome).

Communicate effectively (good eye contact, active listening): Active listening includes looking at the person, maintaining a comfortable body position, and keeping your mind clear of anything else. Do an exercise of actively listening to someone and let the other know when he/she is finished talking what was said.

Empathy: Being sensitive to others feelings. Make a list of feelings and emotions.

Respect: Respect differences of opinion, respect personal space, respect someone by using polite language.

Proper body language: For example; sitting up straight, not invading someone else’s space, use good posture (stand against wall to practice good posture), and more.

Ability to learn from mistakes: Admitting your mistake and accepting responsibility for it. Everyone makes mistakes. It is normal and expected that people cannot do things perfectly. The only way to learn from mistake is to make one.

Humor (making a joke): Look up some jokes that you can pass on to a friend. Humor is a great way of making contact with people and its fun. Making fun of someone is not good and should never happen. It is mean spirited and will not make you a friend.

Patience: Being able to wait for others to have a turn, giving others the chance to catch up to you, letting others finish a sentence.

Maintaining eye contact: Look directly at the person you are speaking to.

Flexibility: Being open to making changes. Changes happen all the time. They sometimes make people feel anxious. Change can be positive and helps people get used to new things. Flexible also means allowing others to come up with their own ideas even if they are different than yours.

Cooperation: Going along with directions given, the group activity or doing what is asked of you by an adult.

Accepting criticism: Allow others to let you know what you are doing wrong in order to do it better next time. It is a way of growing and learning how to improve yourself.

Teamwork: Be a part of the group by agreeing to work together.

Offer compliments: Everyone wants to hear nice things about themselves. It helps their self-confidence and make them feel good. (Make a list of compliments for others Example I like your shirt, you are very smart, your haircut looks good.

Think positive thoughts: It will always help you feel good and happy.

To download this article as a PDF, click here.

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