Our Social Skills Programs
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
Ages: High School (Years 7 - 12)
This class runs from multiple different locations around the Sutherland Shire.
Our Community Access groups mirror a typical hangout for teens. Our support workers take our teens to a variety of fun locations around the Sutherland Shire. On the way we practice skills such as, using public transport, using money, communicating with community helpers and fostering friendships.
SPORTS SOCIAL SKILLS
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
Ages: Primary School (K - 6)
This class runs on weekends out of a local sports facility in Caringbah - 5sports.
In this class we focus on building Gross Motor skills and team work skills to help you
join a sports team in the future. We play a variety of different team sport games such as soccer, cricket, netball, baseball, oztag and tennis at local sports facility.
SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS
COMMUNITY ACCESS GROUPS
TEENAGE SOCIAL SKILLS
Ages: Primary School (Years K - 6)
This class runs week day afternoon and weekends from our clinic space in Caringbah
This class focuses on developing playground skills, communication skills and team work skills through a variety of fun and physically active games.
TEENAGE SOCIAL SKILLS
SCHOOL READINESS PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
TEENAGE SOCIAL SKILLS
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Ages: High School (Years 7 - 12)
This class runs week day afternoon and weekends from our clinic space in Caringbah
This class focuses on developing communication skills, socio-emotional skills and team work skills through a variety of fun activities and Group projects.
SCHOOL READINESS PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
SCHOOL READINESS PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
SCHOOL READINESS PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
Ages: Preschool (3-5 yrs old)
This class runs week day afternoon and weekends from our clinic space in Caringbah
Our latest program for preschoolers! This class focuses on Early Social Skills, Play Skills, School Readiness and Classroom Group Skills.
HOW DO WE TEACH & ASSESS SOCIAL SKILLS?
SOCIALLY SAAVY
All of our individualised social programs are guided by direct observations and the Socially Saavy Checklist. (James T. Elliot, PhD, BCBA-D & Christine Almeida, M.S.Ed., Ed.S., BCBA).
The Socially Savvy manual is a resource which uses the principle of Applied Behaviour Analysis to assess, conceptualise and design effective interventions to address social goals.
Strategies used to teach social skills include:
· Positive feedback and reinforcement.
· Direct teaching instruction.
· Modelling.
· Social stories.
· Prompting.
· Teaching functional communication.
· Self-monitoring.
Social Skills
Joint attenDING
Joint attenDING
Joint attenDING
Joint Attention: Sharing interest of enjoyment. For example; reading a book with someone, or passing the ball.
SOCIAL PLAY
Joint attenDING
Joint attenDING
Social Play: Engaging in different types of interactive play with other children. For example parallel play, imaginative play and turn-taking games.
SELF-REGULATION
Joint attenDING
SELF-REGULATION
Self-Regulation: The ability to control one’s urges to behave in a given way and instead behave in another way. For example; Inhibiting touching an item, following rules, waiting in line.
SOCIAL LANGUAGE
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
SELF-REGULATION
Social Language = Using language to respond to or initiate and maintain social interactions. Can include language facilitated by a communication device (PECs or LAMP). Asking questions, making statements, telling stories, asking someone to play
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Social/Emotional Regulation: Skills related to identifying and responding appropriately to your own and other’s emotional responses. For example; Asking if someone is ok when they fall over, or taking a deep breath before reacting in an angry way.
Classroom/Group Behaviour
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Classroom/Group Behaviour: Skills related to following rules and meeting expectations put in place by adults, that are necessary for group activities. For example; Putting your hand up instead of calling out.
Nonverbal Social Language
Nonverbal Social Language
Nonverbal Social Language
Nonverbal Social Language: Interpreting and reacting to non-verbal cues during social interaction. For example; Recognising if someone is bored or listening to you, noticing when you make somebody laugh, or if you are standing to close.