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Growing Social includes gardening projects, cooking projects, and time enjoying the farm animals. Many sessions take place on a small farmstead, and activities use this setting as part of the experience.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: $300.00 deposit plus $50 non-refundable processing fee ($350 is 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 by Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, and Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP. The program offers both individual and small, carefully matched group options, and teletherapy is available. Social learning is taught in a highly motivating outdoor, enriching, garden-based environment, and many sessions take place on a small farmstead. Services are offered to students ages five through adult, and the organization is a women owned company.
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, then as clinic director for the nonprofit Teach Social, and 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 from kindergarten through 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 described as a soft place to land. One professional who has worked closely with Amy Miller and Stephanie Madrigal for almost two decades describes them as using their farm as a backdrop for teaching the growth of social emotional learning and bringing knowledge, creativity, and the ability to individualize treatment based on the needs of the student. A parent reports that using concepts of social thinking while tending to farm animals, harvesting vegetables, cooking and eating foods not tried at home, and working on shared projects helped their son connect what he knows with how and why to use it, and describes a dramatic and lasting impact. Another parent shares that their son participated in Growing Social for five years, practicing social skills and talking about challenges, and that the parents in the group continue to meet every three weeks on their own. A further testimonial describes Growing Social as offering extra support that some families need.
Last updated July 2, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: $300.00 deposit plus $50 non-refundable processing fee ($350 is 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 by Amy Miller, M.A., CCC-SLP, and Stephanie Madrigal, M.A., CCC-SLP. The program offers both individual and small, carefully matched group options, and teletherapy is available. Social learning is taught in a highly motivating outdoor, enriching, garden-based environment, and many sessions take place on a small farmstead. Services are offered to students ages five through adult, and the organization is a women owned company.
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, then as clinic director for the nonprofit Teach Social, and 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 from kindergarten through 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 described as a soft place to land. One professional who has worked closely with Amy Miller and Stephanie Madrigal for almost two decades describes them as using their farm as a backdrop for teaching the growth of social emotional learning and bringing knowledge, creativity, and the ability to individualize treatment based on the needs of the student. A parent reports that using concepts of social thinking while tending to farm animals, harvesting vegetables, cooking and eating foods not tried at home, and working on shared projects helped their son connect what he knows with how and why to use it, and describes a dramatic and lasting impact. Another parent shares that their son participated in Growing Social for five years, practicing social skills and talking about challenges, and that the parents in the group continue to meet every three weeks on their own. A further testimonial describes Growing Social as offering extra support that some families need.
Last updated July 2, 2026.
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