Is your child struggling to develop their social skills?
Do you see them falling behind other children their age, and worry that this may cause issues down the line?
If so, our speech therapists can help.
Based on the Social Thinking model, we can help your child develop their social skills and social competencies in a compassionate, understanding environment.
Here at Sol Speech & Language Therapy, we use practice proven and evidence based materials and strategies to help your child build their social skills.
To find out more about how your child can benefit from speech therapy for social skills support groups near me, book your appointment with Sol Speech & Language Therapy today.
Or, read on for more information.
What Is Social Thinking?
Social Thinking is a protocol designed to help children and teenagers better understand themselves and their place in the world around them.
For some children, navigating social situations can be difficult.
The Social Thinking model works toward helping children and teenagers develop their language skills, as well as their cognitive and learning abilities. These techniques have been developed with a wide variety of different learning styles and neurodivergences in mind. That means the Social Thinking program here at Sol Speech and Language Therapy can help your child regardless of whether they have:
- Autism spectrum disorder
- ADHD
- Social communication learning disorder
- An anxiety disorder
- Speech delays
- Dyslexia or other learning disabilities
- A sensory processing disorder
- And more
They can also help if your child doesn’t have any of the above conditions, but is just having trouble developing their social skills.
Sol Speech and Language Therapy offers two different speech therapy for kids social skills groups – one for beginners, and one for intermediate level learners (typically 7+ years). Upcoming social skills group dates are below. Please email hello@solspeechandlanguage.com for more information. Groups are private pay only.
Contact us today to enroll your child in the social skills group that best meets their needs.
Beginners Social Skills Support Groups For Young Children
Is your child struggling to build their social skills?
If so, Sol Speech & Language Therapy can help.
Social skills support groups for young children at Sol Speech & Language Therapy are based on the We Thinkers! series. This approach helps children build the foundations of the social skills they’ll use throughout their lives.
Through this approach, your child will learn:
- Self awareness
- How to understand other peoples’ perspectives
- How to solve social problems
- How to better understand their own and others’ emotions
- How to build and maintain interpersonal relationships
- How to behave and perform in a classroom setting
Your children will work with a trained and licensed speech language pathologist to work through social concepts, building their understanding of emotional learning, and building their social competencies.
In the end, your child will walk away with a better understanding of the social world around them, giving them a stronger start in their academic life and beyond.
Each group is led by a certified speech language pathologist as well as an assistant, and will have a maximum of 4 other children. This ensures your child will get plenty of one on one time, while also getting the chance to practice their social skills with other kids their age.
Contact Sol Speech & Language Therapy today to find out when the next beginners social skills support group for kids starts.
Intermediate Social Skills Support Groups For Children And Teens
If your child seems like they’re beyond the beginners social skills support groups for children, the intermediate group may be the best option.
This group is based on the Superflex program from Social Thinking. It’s tailored toward children age five to ten and older.
Through this social skills support group, your child will learn the concepts of social observation. They’ll learn:
- How to observe the social world around them
- How to understand other peoples’ perspectives
- How to understand social expectations based on context
- How to recognize the impact we have on others
- How to regulate their behavior
- How to improve their flexibility in social situations
- And much more
At the end of this program, your child will be better able to navigate the various social situations they may face.
Whether your child is neurodivergent or neurotypical, the intermediate social skills support group for kids can help them develop the social skills they need.
Each group is led by a certified speech language pathologist as well as an assistant, and will have a maximum of 4 other children. This ensures your child will get plenty of one on one time, while also getting the chance to practice their social skills with other kids their age.
Contact Sol Speech & Language Therapy today to find out when the next intermediate social skills support group for kids starts.
Which Social Skills Support Group Is Best For My Child?
If you read the two descriptions above, you may notice there’s some overlap between the two programs.
As a result, you may wonder which group is best for your child.
Not to worry, we can help.
Book your appointment with Sol Speech & Language Therapy today – one of our professional speech therapists will help you understand what the best choice is for your child.
Book your appointment with Sol Speech & Language Therapy today.