Social CognitiveGroups

50 North Plains Highway Wallingford, CT.
203-774-0008 X 310

Cost:

Social Thinking Groups: $55 per meeting (14 week session for 1 hour in length)

Young Adult Groups: $55 per meeting. Winter session will also be 12 weeks in length

Important things to know:

Our treatment approach will be:

Cognitive Behavioral Approach / Social Thinking

The delivery of instruction will look like:

Combination of direct instruction & peer mediated instruction

The context of intervention will be:

Clinic and Community

The composition of instruction will be:

Group instruction with individual coaching
Individual IF NEEDED

Age of participants

Play Focused Groups: Preschool – Kindergarten
Social Thinking Groups: Elementary - Adolescents/Young Adults
Social Communication Groups - for individuals who need a mixture of social pragmatic / behavioral interventions

Type of students best suited for “social cognitive” groups at the SLC present with some of the following strengths/areas of need:

Good use of language syntax and communicates for a variety of reasons.
May have impaired speed and efficiency of how they process other’s perspectives
May be very literal thinkers, and will show difficulty with reading literature for social meaning
Have poor organizational skills
May look socially awkward to peers or look just like their peers yet lack social understandings and nuances; “smart but clueless”
Constrained by the speed of social interactions
May retreat back to their own comfort level of conversation without considering their communicative partner
Not understand hidden meaning of social rules
Struggle with understanding how emotions influence their own and another's behaviors
Have a desire to be part of the group
No frequent aggressive behaviors at school or in the community