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Growing Social is a program where students take part in gardening projects, cooking projects, and enjoying the farm animals. Many sessions take place on a small farmstead, where concepts are practiced while students engage in these activities or other motivating and meaningful activities based on their interests.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: $300.00 deposit plus $50 non-refundable processing fee ($350 due with the completed applications packet). If a family forgoes the scheduled spot once they’ve received a confirmation, a $100.00 processing fee will be retained and the remainder of the deposit returned. If they are unable to place a student in a group, the student will be placed on the waiting list and the deposit will be returned in full (minus the processing fee).
Growing Social was founded in 2013. The program was co-founded by Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, a Speech and Language Pathologist, and Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP, a Speech-Language Pathologist. Many sessions take place on a small farmstead, and social learning is taught in a highly motivating outdoor environment that is garden-based and farm-based, including gardening and cooking projects and enjoying farm animals. Services are offered to students ages five through adult, with both individual and small, carefully matched group options, and teletherapy is available for students, families, and teachers near and far.
Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a Speech and Language Pathologist specializing in working with students with social learning differences. She worked for many years as a clinician for Michelle Winner’s Center for Social Thinking, and then as clinic director for the nonprofit Teach Social. She completed an apprenticeship in Agroecology through the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Santa Cruz. Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in working with students with social learning challenges. She worked alongside Michelle Winner of “Social Thinking”™ in San Jose for 15 years, created the internationally recognized children’s learning concept “Superflex©,” taught students ages K–adult, and trained teachers, parents, and professionals across the country and beyond.
Growing Social states that its intention is that families find more than high quality therapy, and that they find a community that educates, celebrates neurodiversity, uplifts parents and caregivers, and is a soft place to land. Growing Social is a women owned company. Teletherapy is available, offering students, families, and teachers near and far the opportunity to receive specialized social learning support. The program uses concepts of social thinking while students tend to farm animals, harvest vegetables, cook, and work on shared projects.
One professional who has worked closely with Amy Miller and Stephanie Madrigal for almost two decades reports that Amy and Stephanie use their farm as a backdrop for teaching the growth of social emotional learning and that they bring a wealth of knowledge, creativity, and ability to individualize treatment based on the needs of the student. One parent reports that using the concepts of social thinking while tending to farm animals, harvesting vegetables, cooking and eating foods, and working on shared projects helped their son connect the dots between what he knows and how and why to use it, and that Stephanie’s and Amy’s high expectations and their ability to find solutions that work for each individual client have had a dramatic and lasting impact on their son. Another parent reports that Growing Social made a profound difference in their son’s life, that Stephanie created an environment where he and his group members could practice their social skills and talk about challenges, and that through the support he received he was able to integrate into his classes and maintain friendships outside of school; this parent also reports finding a community with other moms whose boys spent five years together in Growing Social. A further testimonial states that the program offers impact and support over time for families who need more support than the typical family might need, and that Stephanie and Amy at Growing Social offer what many children need in the way of some extra support.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: $300.00 deposit plus $50 non-refundable processing fee ($350 due with the completed applications packet). If a family forgoes the scheduled spot once they’ve received a confirmation, a $100.00 processing fee will be retained and the remainder of the deposit returned. If they are unable to place a student in a group, the student will be placed on the waiting list and the deposit will be returned in full (minus the processing fee).
Growing Social was founded in 2013. The program was co-founded by Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, a Speech and Language Pathologist, and Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP, a Speech-Language Pathologist. Many sessions take place on a small farmstead, and social learning is taught in a highly motivating outdoor environment that is garden-based and farm-based, including gardening and cooking projects and enjoying farm animals. Services are offered to students ages five through adult, with both individual and small, carefully matched group options, and teletherapy is available for students, families, and teachers near and far.
Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a Speech and Language Pathologist specializing in working with students with social learning differences. She worked for many years as a clinician for Michelle Winner’s Center for Social Thinking, and then as clinic director for the nonprofit Teach Social. She completed an apprenticeship in Agroecology through the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Santa Cruz. Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in working with students with social learning challenges. She worked alongside Michelle Winner of “Social Thinking”™ in San Jose for 15 years, created the internationally recognized children’s learning concept “Superflex©,” taught students ages K–adult, and trained teachers, parents, and professionals across the country and beyond.
Growing Social states that its intention is that families find more than high quality therapy, and that they find a community that educates, celebrates neurodiversity, uplifts parents and caregivers, and is a soft place to land. Growing Social is a women owned company. Teletherapy is available, offering students, families, and teachers near and far the opportunity to receive specialized social learning support. The program uses concepts of social thinking while students tend to farm animals, harvest vegetables, cook, and work on shared projects.
One professional who has worked closely with Amy Miller and Stephanie Madrigal for almost two decades reports that Amy and Stephanie use their farm as a backdrop for teaching the growth of social emotional learning and that they bring a wealth of knowledge, creativity, and ability to individualize treatment based on the needs of the student. One parent reports that using the concepts of social thinking while tending to farm animals, harvesting vegetables, cooking and eating foods, and working on shared projects helped their son connect the dots between what he knows and how and why to use it, and that Stephanie’s and Amy’s high expectations and their ability to find solutions that work for each individual client have had a dramatic and lasting impact on their son. Another parent reports that Growing Social made a profound difference in their son’s life, that Stephanie created an environment where he and his group members could practice their social skills and talk about challenges, and that through the support he received he was able to integrate into his classes and maintain friendships outside of school; this parent also reports finding a community with other moms whose boys spent five years together in Growing Social. A further testimonial states that the program offers impact and support over time for families who need more support than the typical family might need, and that Stephanie and Amy at Growing Social offer what many children need in the way of some extra support.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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