Clients ages 12+ generally take “Tweens/Teens Talk &  Rock.”

“Tweens/Teens Talk & Rock”

1 hr. “classroom” instruction time with 1 ½ - 4 hrs. of Therapeutic Recreation to reinforce skills and promote generalization

            Along with Addressing Individual IEP goals, During Tweens/Teens Talk, Participants will:

• Increase their communication skills related to solving problems in their social, school, and home lives
• Develop understanding and motivation for caring what others think
• Increase their social thinking (social cognition), including, but not limited to:

• Taking Perspective
• Taking Initiative
• Being a Good Listener
• Abstracting and Inferring
• Gestalt (“big picture”) Thinking

·         Increase awareness of behaviors that need changing

·         Increase skills related to self-monitoring behaviors

·         Increase skills related to self-control of  behaviors

          During Tweens/Teens Rock, Participants will:

·         Practice skills they learn in Tweens/Teens Talk in facilitated social activities

·         Demonstrate increasing ability to think about others during facilitated social activities

·         Demonstrate increasing motivation to interact with others, peers and group leaders           

·         Increase in comfort level and skills necessary for successful participation in a variety of activities

·         Increase in skills related to accepting and benefiting from others’ feedback                      

·         Develop increasing independence in a variety of social situations and activities

Course titles available for the "Talk" portion of the group are:

• "Fitting in at Middle School"

• "Social Boundaries & Self-Management"

• "Cracking Current Communication Codes"

• "Peer Relationships"

• "Developing Friendships Through Communication"

• "Excellent Self-Care"

• "Applied Perspective Taking"

• "Functional Social communication"

Please call for specific course descriptions.

Please see Young Adult Page for Transition Courses for Grades 10+