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Social Groups Help Kids Sharpen Skills
For many children, developing appropriate social skills while they’re dealing with other issues can be a challenge. SLDCenter offers a variety of Social Skills Groups, based on age and the needs of the children within those communities.
Children may need help with social skills due to many factors, including autism, developmental delays, cognitive deficits, and/or difficulty with feeding skills. Children born in another country also may need help learning appropriate American social skills.
Some children who can’t articulate or physically participate in activities may have excellent social skills. So we adapt all our social groups to the needs of the children involved.
For children with ADD or ADHD diagnoses, social groups focus on helping children refocus and self-regulate. “When a child is unable to focus or pay attention, he or she may not have developed social skills as quickly as their peers. We can help them”.
In addition to their individual needs, children are typically assigned to social skills groups based on their age and their needs. This may be their actual age or their developmental age.
Social skill lesson may include, but are not limited to:
- Learn to take turns in play with peers
- Learn to take turns or share time when talking with peers
- Learn to let others have turns deciding on activities to play
- Learn to give others appropriate personal space
- Learn to make improved eye contact with adults and peers
- Learn to terminate social interactions & accept when others are ready to terminate
- Learn to resolve conflicts with others appropriately and adaptively
- Learn to keep hands to self when playing, with decreased aggressive behaviors
- Learn to initiate social contact in an age-appropriate way
- Negotiate for objects, space, and/or choice of activity
- Facilitating improved conversations skills (i.e. initiating/termination conversations,
maintaining topics, reading verbal/non-verbal communication cues.)
