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Social Connections: Social Skills Group For Tech & Engineering Guys Ages 8-13
For kids who are ready to push their social skills to mastery level
ADHD and Autistic kids often struggle to feel connected. They are often described as annoying or bossy, with a ‘my way or the highway’ attitude. At times they don’t listen, are too hyper, and talk way too much. This group is about mastering the social skills to be socially successful and pushing the limits to ensure mastery.
➤ Social Connections: Social Skills Group for Tech & Engineering Guys Ages 8-13 will help your child master skills like…
If your hyperactive ADHD child
- Being spatially aware of how their behaviors and movements may impact others
- Know when and where high energy is appropriate
- Focus on the social details that are often missed due to ADHD
If your inattentive ADHD child
- Notice the intricacies of social dynamics
- Be mindful of when they zone out and how to let others know their needs
- Gain mastery of wandering thoughts in social settings
If your Autistic child
- Recognizing when is the timing for special interests, versus focusing on other’s stories
- Increase flexible thinking skills
- Improve awareness of non-verbal and verbal cues
➤ Social Connections: Social Skills Group for Tech & Engineering Guys Ages 8-13 also helps kids…
- Build confidence and self-esteem
- Provide and accept Constructive Criticism
- Understand the difference between teasing and bullying
- Self advocate in an appropriate way
- Learn back and forth conversation skills
- Practice being both a leader and an effective follower
➤ Social Connections: Social Skills Group for Tech & Engineering Guys Ages 8-13 will help parents…
- Worry less about how your child is handling school and social dynamics
- Feel connected with other parents who may experience the same fears
- Gain answers for teachers on how to best support your child
- Know the next steps for social and emotional skills
- Feel supported by a therapeutic team focusing on enabling your child to succeed
➤ Our Social Connections: Social Skills Group for Tech & Engineering Guys Ages 8-13 is the most effective way to help your son master the skills to be successful in extracurricular environments and school partner work.
Here’s why…
- We use therapist-led collaborative playing skills to teach better social and emotional skills.
- We teach building friendships through playing, while naturally teaching skills like not interrupting, staying on task, and being effectively assertive.
- We build on strengths while overcoming social limitations
- We know that kids don’t learn from worksheets. We use unstructured play settings so that kids can learn social skills in a real setting, which transfers to home and school.
- We also use structured skill-building activities to teach specific strategies for social success.
- We provide updates on goals, behaviors and social concerns, including improvement towards lagging skills, as well as in-depth information on social skills development through our teachable platform.
- We provide a mentorship atmosphere to strengthen learning through the transmission of values and attitudes
- We establish and execute goals for both the child and parents
- Our targeted curriculum is research-inspired and has shown significant social improvement for members who commit for a minimum of 4 consecutive months.
I'm Geoff
I help ADHD and Autistic boys ages 8-13 who struggle with friendships understand what makes a good friend and how to be one.
➤ The Specifics:
- Group is $150 per week, paid for in 1-month blocks.
- Group is led by Robert Baker, LCMHC. In addition, we also utilize co-leaders which are graduate level therapists typically attending local universities and completing internship hours towards graduation. Our group consists of 30 minutes of free play and 45 minutes of a pre-planned activity (focused on that month’s camp theme).
- Weekly individual updates from the leaders to share specific goals and strategies for at home/school.
Check out some of our recent clubs! A new club happens every month.
Effective Competitiveness & social challenges: This is all about learning teamwork through collaboration, and team building skills. We are learning to reduce our competitiveness, while building friend skills in an energized setting. This month we are using team work to do everything from a field day to building a cantilever structure!
Communication challenges (Active listening and other forms of communication): This plays off of challenges often used in the Odyssey of the Mind® program which focuses on flexing your creative thinking skills while building problem solving skills specific to effective communication.
Leadership skills: We focus on using prior learned skills to learn how to thrive as leaders. We use everything from building a robot, to different building challenges to help our kids practice what they’ve learned.