Social & Life Skills Training
Social structure and everyday expectations can be especially challenging for our neurodiverse loved ones. Aspects such as sarcasm and cultural phrasing or idioms are a complete foreign language to many. It's not a question of intelligence. It's a matter of how particularly wired brains prioritize what's happening.We offer specially designed programs that teach, prepare, and practice how to effectively navigate these otherwise challenging scenarios.
Social & Life Skills Courses
Among the tools and methods we use, we incorporate principles from the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®). This is a world-renowned program providing evidence-based social skills programs to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in developing and maintaining close friendships, navigate daily social interactions, and for older age groups, even romantic relationships, as appropriate.
Each course listed below is designed in a small-group setting of similarly aged participants. The groups meet for 1-2 hours each week for 12-16 weeks, depending on age of the group.
Elementary Age
Designed for 1st grade through 6th grade school age participants and parents/caregivers. Sessions are 90 min each week. Students learn how to make and keep friends as well as how to navigate and minimize conflict and rejection through role play demonstrations, and safe-environment practice together.
Parents/caregivers also attend a simultaneous separate sessions with other parents/caregivers to learn how to support the lessons for permanent impact, as well as provide support for each other.
Teens
Designed for middle school and high school age participants and parents/caregivers. Sessions are 90 min each week. Students learn how to make and keep friends as well as how to navigate and minimize conflict and rejection through role play demonstrations, and safe-environment practice together.
Parents/caregivers also attend a simultaneous separate sessions with other parents/caregivers to learn how to support the lessons for permanent impact, as well as provide support for each other.
Young Adults
Designed for ages 18y-35y and social coaches (often times parents). Sessions are 90 min each week. Students learn how to make and keep friends as well as how to navigate and minimize conflict and rejection through role play demonstrations, and safe-environment group socialization practice together.
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Social coaches/caregivers also attend a separate sessions simultaneously with other parents/caregivers to learn how to support the lessons for permanent impact, as well as each other.
Pre-School
Designed for ages 4y-6y participants and parents. Sessions are 90 min each week. Students learn how to make and keep friends through puppet shows, role play demonstrations, and safe-environment practice together.
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Parents/caregivers also attend a separate sessions during the same time with other parents/caregivers to learn how to support the lessons for permanent impact.