Social Skill Training is available for individuals, but group is recommended to generalize these skills.  There is not an age limit on these services. Groups are continually created and designed based on need.

Social Skill Groups are designed for children and teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD), Attention Deficit Disorder or other developmental disorders that create delays or deficits in social skills. In order to have effective social communication,children must have a strong repertorie of speaker and listener skills(Dr. Sundberg 2010). If in either of these critical areas are absent, weak or impaired, the child will experience social and communication difficulties.

 ASD children do not model after their peers as most nero-typical children do. They miss the social skills cues necessary to survive in the social world.  These children may have many deficits in their speaker skills but have strengths as a listener. ASD children need to be systemically taught social skills in order for them to be able to successfully “navigate” the social world.

Children with Attention Deficit Disorder have many of the same deficits. They are unable to see social cues because of their distractibility and inability to focus on what the speaker is saying. Many children with ADD are great speakers but have deficits in their listening skills.

In order for children to be proficient in social navigation they must have: social motivation, social awareness, social cognition and  social communication.

Current Social Skills Groups we offer: Contact Us for Availability

• Autism Equine Assisted Learning (see this group page)
• AD/HD Equine Assisted Learning (see this group page)
• Pre-K- 1st Social & Play Group
• Pre-K -1st Language Enriched Social & Play Group
• 7-12 year old Language Enriched Social Group
• Girls’ Only! Social Group(Coming soon)
• Social Clubs that meet once a month