Club Jr.
Ages Served: 10-14
This pre-teen group is designed for children who can effectively communicate basic wants/needs, call attention to others, protest appropriately, and initiate simple conversations.
Social Skills Group Descriptions
Groups for Pre-Teens
Club Jr. Life Strategies
Ages Served: 10-18
Participants will learn life skills in a highly structured setting. Independent skills will be the focus of this program using hands-on activities.
Creative Expressions
Ages Served: 8-18
In our Creative Expressions group participants learn group dynamics, social rules, effective peer interactions and functional skills for group participation and conversation. Students will work together on creating specific art projects!
Curtain Call
Ages Served: 10-16
Our “Curtain Call” social group uses theatre as a medium to promote expressive communication, regulation of emotions, and social interactions. Co-facilitated by a teaching artist from the Trinity Repertory Company and a licensed clinician, the program incorporates individual objectives for each participant and specialized ASD strategies to help adolescents and teens learn, communicate, and build self esteem.
Game on! Basketball
Ages Served: 5-18
Game On! is a group for children and teens looking to improve their functional skills in different sporting activities. In addition to emotional regulation, communication, following game rules, and team cooperation, participants will work on coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance.
GAME ON! KARATE FRIDAY
Ages Served: 5-10
Game On! is a group for children and teens looking to improve their functional skills in different sporting activities. In addition to emotional regulation, communication, following game rules, and team cooperation, participants will work on coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance using Karate.
GAME ON! KARATE SATURDAY
Ages Served: 5-18
Game On! is a group for children and teens looking to improve their functional skills in different sporting activities. In addition to emotional regulation, communication, following game rules, and team cooperation, participants will work on coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance using karate
Girls Night Out
Ages Served: 9-12 and 13-17
Our “Girls Night Out” program fosters effective interpersonal communication skills, social development and positive self esteem among girls ages 9-17 during recreational field trip activities.
In Harmony: “Music Makers” & “Sing Together”
Ages Served: 6-16
Ages 6-9 Music Makers
Ages 9-12 Sing Together
Music, which activates a different part of the brain than speech, has been demonstrated to be an effective channel for addressing some of the core deficits of autism, including expressive communication and self-regulation capacity.
Social Thinking Academy
Ages Served: 5-18
We feel it is important to teach our students to become more efficient social thinkers BEFORE we can ask them to produce an appropriate social behavior. Adapted from Michelle Garcia Winner and Stephanie Madrigal's work, The Autism Project’s Social Thinking Academy teaches participants to become more efficient at social thinking and understand social skills.