Social Skills Training - 8 Week Program

Enhance your child's quality of life and improve his or her ability to make and keep friends. Our Social Skills Training Group incorporates approaches from proven methods in realm of behavioral science. This program will help your child:

• Initiate new friendships
• Make and maintain eye contact
• Initiate conversation; respond appropriately during conversation
• Show assertive behavior such as asking to play
• Stay on topic
• Compensate for the difficulty in reading others' body language
• Position for listening and display other nonverbal cues
• Play and work cooperatively
• Resolve conflicts and avoid or diffuse teasing situations
• Lower frustration levels which cause tantrums and other inappropriate behavior

Social Skills Training is a one-hour session that runs once per week for 8 weeks. Children are grouped together based on age, skill level and language ability, with three to four children and two peer trainers per class. Sessions involve cooperative learning activities, games, use of multimedia, direct instruction, incidental teaching, and structured learning (role playing etc).

To learn more, discuss your unique needs, and enroll your child in the Social Skills Training Program, contact us today.

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