LG Speech Therapy offers social skills groups for students ages 4-20. Using the Social Thinking® treatment framework, we will teach your child interpret the social world, adapt to the world around them, and interact in a way that makes them feel successful and confident.

Does your child have…

• Difficulty making and maintaining friendships

• Difficulty picking up on social cues

• Big reactions to small problems

• Difficulty with personal space & eye contact

• Difficulty playing cooperatively or working in groups

Using the Social Thinking® methodology, our groups will teach:

• Flexible thinking

• Following the group plan

• Understanding hidden rules

• Problem size and reaction size

• Whole body listening

• Building and maintaining friendships

• Conversation skills

What is Social Thinking?

Social Thinking is an evidenced-based methodology created by Michelle Garcia Winner. It teaches clients strategies for understanding, interpreting, and navigating the social world. Social thinking is all about thinking about others, and then adjusting our behavior based on what others are thinking and feeling, and what will make us feel most successful as we try to achieve our social goals. Through this curriculum, students learn vocabulary words and concepts that break down the social world. Concrete lessons help students attend to, interpret, and interact in the world around them.

Our youngest learners learn to observe others and interpret what they see and experience. School-age children learn to be “social detectives” as they determine the hidden rules of social situations throughout their days. Adolescents and young adults can learn strategies for navigating the complex social world, as well as approaches for staying organized and efficient while they complex academic assignments. Students can participate in individual or group therapy sessions to learn and practice Social Thinking skills.