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Social skills are your tools for understanding and interacting with others in our daily lives.
Effective social skills allow appropriate communication with others.
Without proper social skills, children often display behavioural difficulties in school and experience anxiety, depression, bullying, low self-esteem, problems in making and maintaining friendships.
In many cases this lack of social skills and experience is due to the individual not having sufficient opportunity to practice and acquire such essential social skills.
This absence of social skills learning opportunities is most common for children and young adults who are considered “different” (either due to their special needs or behaviour challenges) who often find themselves rejected or targeted by their peer group.
Social skills groups at Think Kids are organized in small groups of similar age and complementary skills sets so that each group member can learn from their peers. Typically each social skills group will meet once a week for 90-minutes.
The social skills groups are moderated by our qualified trainers who are experienced in applying evidence based techniques with children and young adults.
We customise for the developmental objectives of your child.
Due to their limitation in perspective taking, often times children with special needs fumble in social situations, causing misunderstandings, embarrassments and even creating trouble for themselves and their families. Such challenges may also place these children at risk of being bullied.
At Think Kids, we understand the difficulties faced by children with special needs and thereby aim to equip them with appropriate skills needed to cope with the challenges they face socially.
Through our social skills training programs, we first complete an intake assessment to ascertain the learning and social skills needs of your child and then place them in an appropriate group to learn with other children with similar challenges and learning needs.
The social skills training sessions include structured activities such as therapist-guided games, role-plays, discussions, worksheets and video feedback. The activities are targeted in helping your child gain awareness on why the skills are necessary, as well as giving them a chance to practice these skills in class with their peers. Parents are also provided regular feedback on what the child has learnt in class so you can help your child generalise the skills they have learnt.
