Social Skills Groups

This program provides social communication opportunities for school-aged children and young adults by providing activities that are customized to their interests. Participants will be encouraged to converse and solve social problems with peers in small groups while being provided with the support necessary to succeed.

Children will use activities including collaborative building activities, art, video and board games, and storytelling to target pragmatic language concepts including sharing, turn taking, using eye contact, and following social rules. 

Young adults will work on developing and maintaining friendships, conversational skills, entering and exiting conversations, appropriate use of humor, handling direct and indirect bullying, electronic communication, dating skills, organizing get-togethers, handling disagreements, and handling dating pressure.

Through engagement with evidence-based treatment activities, participants will build social competence alongside peers with similar skills throughout a series of guided small group sessions. Since participants will be working toward independent age-appropriate social communication, parents and caregivers will be encouraged to participate to support their child’s social communication. Those parental supports will then be faded throughout the program to encourage independence. 

• In-person Speech Language Pathology evaluation and Occupational Therapy evaluation to determine a plan of care based on current level of functioning and family goals 
• Weekly group treatment sessions with peers lead by a licensed SLP, OT, and/or BCBA focused on natural interactions and generalization of concepts discussed individual treatment sessions 
• May include weekly individual treatment sessions with a licensed SLP, OT, and/or BCBA focusing on learning and practicing social skills in a highly structured setting 
• Customized home program designed to encourage generalization of social skills to all settings 

Your child will need to be evaluated to determine group placement. To enroll, please click the button below to begin the new patient intake process and ask your child's primary care physician fax the following orders to 734-527-5981.

• Occupational Therapy Evaluation and Treatment
• Speech Therapy Evaluation and Treatment