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SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS

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Our social groups are specifically designed to enhance children's social-emotional development. We understand that solid social-emotional development is the foundation for communication, interactions, healthy relationships, positive self-esteem, academic success, mental health, and overall well-being. Our social groups provide a unique social experience for children to improve their self-awareness, self-regulation, and emotional regulation.

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We use a combination of techniques and practices rooted in neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology to enhance each child’s ability to communicate, build meaningful peer relationships, and think (not memorize rote content or splinter skills).  This is done through developmentally appropriate play, semi-structured activities, games, role-playing, and practicing peer interaction.  We also use techniques and strategies from DIRFloortime®  and Synergetic Play Therapy® .  Social groups simulate real-life experiences and scenarios with the facilitation of trained therapists. Our social groups are not behavior modification-based.

Social skills promote: 

  • Self-regulation skills

  • Self-awareness 

  • Self-reflection and reflective awareness

  • Emotional Regulation (recognizing, labeling, and managing emotions and emotional responses)

  • Self-esteem and confidence

  • Resilience

  • Social pragmatic language skills and assertive communication

  • Social anxiety

  • Social problem-solving Sensory Processing (including motor planning and sequencing, visual-spatial processing, auditory processing, language, and sensory modulation)

  • Flexibility (for rigid, controlling children)

  • Independence

  • Executive functioning

  • Body awareness

  • Impulse control

  • Improved attention necessary for social interactions and activities

  • Understanding and maintaining boundaries

  • Initiation of and ability to maintain reciprocal interactions with peers

  • Reading and responding to verbal and nonverbal social cues and emotional signals

  • Perspective-taking (understanding the emotions of others)

  • Negotiation skills and conflict resolution

  • Ideation (initiating ideas and building off of the ideas of peers)

  • Logical and abstract thinking to enhance social interactions

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