Social skills are very complex. They include understanding non-verbal cues: facial expressions, tone of speech, and body language. In tandem with non-verbal communication, adequate social skills require appropriate social speech (language use): initiating, maintaining, and ending conversations appropriately.
We work with toddlers to adolescents. Some children need direct instruction to first learn these underlying social skills; other children need assistance using these skills in social situations.
For school age children, social skills therapy may focus on their social thinking, e.g. becoming more aware of a conversational partners’ intent and thoughts, and/or enhancing their social conversation skills, e.g. becoming aware of social conversation “killers,” dealing with interruptions, initiating conversations, properly maintaining a conversation, etc. We base our work heavily on the Social Thinking curriculum.
We work with quiet students and verbose students. We strive to increase the student’s awareness of appropriate and inappropriate social rules and we help him or her acquire strategies and techniques to help improve their social skills.
If you are interested in a private group (2-3 children) therapy, please email me for more information- craig@brooklynlearning.com
UPDATES
Summer 2011: http://brooklynlearning.com/2011/05/blog/summer-social-skills-group/
Winter 2011/2012: http://brooklynlearning.com/2011/12/blog/kensington-social-skills-group-for-3-4-year-olds/
