About Advanced Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the use of socially appropriate language.
At Advanced Pragmatics, our goal is take the social skills kids, teens, and young adults have learned at school and apply those skills in a more functional, real-life setting. The misapplication of pragmatics leads kids, teens, and adults with Autism to struggle with making and keeping friendships, finding work, as well as succeeding at school and into adulthood. At Advanced Pragmatics, we strengthen social skills, put them into practice and have fun doing it. Advanced Pragmatics is dedicated to providing neruodiversity-affirming support by helping clients build confidence, connections, and communication skills in a way that honors their unique strengths and goals.
We offer summer camp programs for kids, teens, and young adults that are designed to build confidence, friendships, and real-world communication skills in a supportive, fun environment,.
Outside of summer, we offer private and group speech therapy, where clients will receive social skills training from a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist.
Our goal is to cultivate relationships with clients and create therapy that is specific to the needs of each individual.
Meet our Owner
Brenna King, CCC-SLP
Brenna King earned her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and is a California Licensed Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP).
In 2014, she received her Master’s degree in Speech Pathology from the California State University, Long Beach. After receiving her graduate degree, Brenna was employed for 11 years as an SLP at a Southern California high school and adult transition program, where she developed a wide range of expertise in articulation, fluency, language disorders, ADHD, and Autism. Brenna became PEERS certified in 2020 and has taught the course over 20 times to kids, teens, and young adults.
While working with a large population of teens and adults with Autism, Brenna found that many lack the opportunity for social interaction over summer break. Drawing from her 7 years of experience as a summer camp counselor and her work as a high school SLP, Brenna founded Advanced Pragmatics Social Summer Camps in 2018 to serve the neurodivergent population, and give them an opportunity to build community, confidence, and independence in a fun and safe environment.
After having her second child, Brenna made the difficult decision to leave her job at the school district and focus on her family and private practice. Since then, Advanced Pragmatics has grown tremendously, and we are now able to offer Weekly Social Groups for preschoolers, elementary aged-kids, adolescents, and young adults. We also host inclusive events for the autistic community, including our ever-popular Meet and Mingle Events for neurodiverse adults.
Brenna lives in Rossmoor with her husband, two young kids, and their sweet dog. When she is not working with students or planning fun inclusive events, you can find Brenna hiking local orange county trails with her family, cooking, or traveling. Brenna is passionate about creating meaningful experiences for neurodivergent individuals and their families- and we are so glad you’re here.
Make Friends, Have Fun, Be You.