Social Skills Groups
Social Skills I: Social Scouts
Social Scouts is Spectrum’s early learning social skills group. Students receive instruction in beginning social skills including parallel and cooperative play, turn taking, eye contact, greetings, and group learning behaviors. Social skills concepts are introduced and reinforced through both whole-group and paired instruction, children’s stories, videos, songs, and interactive activities (games, art projects, imaginative play, etc.) that reinforce the skill that is currently being targeted.
The format of the group is adapted based on the individual needs of the students in that group. Students talk, laugh, learn, and play together in structured activities.
Prerequisite skills include:
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Language skills equivalent to that of a nuerotypical 4-year-old
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Absence of significant negative/disruptive behaviors.
Social Skills 2: Social Adventurers
Social Skills Schedule
Groups meet multiple times a week during our after-school therapy session and typically run from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
STC's directors and BCBAs will work together to determine the best possible fit for your child
If you'd like the current weekly meeting time for schedule for Social Scouts and/or Social Adventurer's please let us know in your contact request form
Social Adventurers is Spectrum’s intermediate social skills group. Students receive whole-group instruction on social themes through the use of cooperative play, stories, videos, and interactive activities that reinforce the skill that is currently being targeted. This group also targets group learning, following group instructions, independence in classroom routines, and making predictions about social situations. Students talk, laugh, learn, and play together in both structured and unstructured activities including building, crafting, game-playing, and conversation.
Depending on the individual needs of the students and as the group advances, advanced social skills instruction in reading and responding to non-verbal social cues, making social predictions, understanding other people’s perspectives, and problem solving are also explored. The format of the group is adapted based on the individual needs of the students in that group. Students talk, laugh, learn, and play together in both structured and unstructured activities including building, crafting, game-playing, and conversation.