Social Skills Group
Social skills group services are delivered in a small group format (2 or more participants) and are led by a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT). The Supervisor and RBT develop lesson plans to work on during the groups’, which can range from four to ten hours weekly depending on each child’s need. The lesson plans are developed to help build on a variety of social behavior. Social skills group uses the evidenced based principles of ABA to support teaching children both social and life skills. These skills are designed to provide the child with the tools to build and maintain meaningful relationships with same aged peers and adults.
Those who would benefit from social skills group:
- Lower social communication than same-aged peers
- Difficulty maintaining meaningful relationships
- Lack of attentiveness in others’ interests
- Difficulty maintaining conversations
Through social skills group, kids can learn many skills including:
- Perspective taking
- Sharing and taking turns
- Greeting others
- Responding to others
- Starting and maintaining conversations
- Appropriate play with peers
- Nonverbal cues
- Flexible thinking
- Maintaining meaningful friendships and relationships