Social Skills Groups

 

Little Seekers   

4-6 year-olds

This group provides our Little Seekers with the opportunity to engage in turn-taking activities while immersed in a language-rich environment. The focus of this group is to teach and enhance age-typical play and social interaction. Through the use of fun and engaging activities and research-based teaching strategies, students will develop greater awareness of their social world. Teaching focuses on developing social play, sharing, taking turns, social conversation, transitioning between play, and many other age-appropriate social skills. 

 

Discoverers   

10-12 year-olds 

This group provides our Discoverers with the opportunity to strengthen their emotional thinking , perspective taking, and logic through both structured activities and pretend-play. In this group, students are taught to further enhance the skills mentioned above. The focus of this group will be teaching the necessary skills to be successful in social situations. Age-appropriate interest and play will be discussed, as well as initiating conversations, reciprocal communication, social boundaries, maintaining friendships, and many other important age-appropriate social skills. 

Mighty Explorers  

7-9 year-olds

This group provides our Mighty Explorers with the opportunity to create stories through pretend play, while focusing on improving sequencing, imaginative thinking, turn taking, and back and forth communication. This program is designed to enhance age-typical play, social skills related to this age group, and skills needed to be as independent as possible in social learning situations. Skills will be introduced that teach successful peer interactions. Some of these skills will include: initiating conversations, reciprocal communication, social boundaries, maintaining friendships, and many other important age-appropriate social skills.

 

Conquerors  

13-15 year olds 

This group provides our Conquerors with the opportunity to work on higher level skills including problem solving, perspective taking, conversational turn-taking, and cohesive story telling. The focus of this group is to facilitate the building of meaningful social relationships. This group will introduce the importance of age-appropriate interests, as well as the execution needed to maintain friendships. Skill areas addressed will be: understanding the social behavior of others, collaborative and cooperative interactions, increased flexibility and tolerance of others, understanding and navigating social media and planning age-typical activities.