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Social skills

BENEFIT OF ALL for 3’s SOCIAL SKILLS GROUP

The purpose of this group is to facilitate desirable social communication interactions. All for 3’s groups focus is on teaching the children a variety of social communication skills that will help improve the ability to make and keep friends, develop more self-confidence and get along with others. Children are grouped according to similar needs, personalities and age range. We create the child's social language goals based on input from the parent and also from an initial evaluation we conduct prior to putting the child in the group. Parents receive pre- and post testing results and goals. We do not offer makeup sessions for these groups, as it is the consistency that will make the therapy successful.

Overview of All for 3’s group

  • All for 3’s groups provide practice opportunities in small groups and individual sessions in order to encourage students to generalize new skills to multiple, real life situations.
  • In this program we enhance social skills by increasing the frequency of an appropriate behavior in real life simulated situations.
  • We attempt to make our activities as normal as possible so to increase generalization.
  • All for 3’s is child centered, in that we use activities and tasks that the children enjoy and look forward to practicing.
  • In our older groups we incorporate role-playing, coaching and group discussions to increase practice opportunities.
  • Most importantly, we invite 1-2 neuro-typical peers to the groups to increase more natural opportunities and generalization of the skills.
  • Children are grouped according to similar needs, personalities, age range and skill level. All for 3’s social group program meets once a week for one hour. Groups typically consist of two to three children, with 1 or 2 speech pathologist (s) leading the groups.

GROUPS (click on each group for information)

Tiny Tots & Puffins (developmental ages of 18 months to 36 months) 
Penguins  (developmental ages of 3  years to 5+ years)
Sharks (developmental ages of  4 years  to 6 years) 
Lions ( developmental ages of 6 years  to 10 years)
Tweets (developmental ages of 10 years  to 15 years) 

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