Social skills, learned together.
Alongside individual therapy, SMC runs evidence based group programs that build friendship skills, social thinking and confidence. Groups run periodically, when enough families register their interest we form the next group.
Evidence based and research informed programs, offered periodically
These are the group programs we run alongside individual therapy. Groups are formed when there is enough interest, so there are no fixed dates. Register your interest below and we'll let you know when the next group is forming.
The Friendship Saver Program
Builds essential social skills and conflict resolution skills, helping students make and keep friends and reduce conflict amongst peers.
The Incredible Flexible You
Introduces and explicitly teaches social thinking concepts in a concrete manner, building the skills children need for social problem solving.
Teaching Through Thoughts and Speech Bubbles
Visually maps social thinking concepts for students in years 6 to 8, building self-awareness and social problem solving skills.
The Friendship Saver Program
The Friendship Saver Program is an evidence based intervention designed to enhance students' friendships and reduce conflict amongst peers. The program teaches essential social skills and conflict resolution skills.
Research shows improved peer relations promote general wellbeing, school engagement and self-confidence, and can improve academic focus. The program focuses on:
The Incredible Flexible You
The Incredible Flexible You Social Skills Program is an evidence based intervention designed to aid children in developing the skills required for social problem solving. The program introduces and explicitly teaches social thinking concepts in a concrete manner, and is suitable for children encountering social skill difficulties. It targets the social thinking concepts that are at the core of our social interactions.
The first social thinking concept taught is:
Teaching Through Thoughts and Speech Bubbles
This program uses evidence based practices to visually map and explicitly teach social thinking concepts in a concrete manner. It is designed to aid children in developing the skills required for social problem solving, including self-awareness, and is suitable for students in years 6 to 8 who are encountering social skill difficulties. The program provides strategies your child can implement in their own social interactions.
These concepts teach children that every individual has their own thoughts and feelings, and that people can experience different thoughts and feelings even in the same situation. Through lessons on holding thoughts and the effect words can have on others, the program builds self-awareness and self-monitoring by demonstrating the links between thoughts and spoken language. The social thinking concepts taught are:
Register your interest
Our groups run when there is enough interest, so registering is the best way to secure a place. Let us know which program you're interested in and your child's age, and we'll be in touch when the next group is forming.
Register your interest
Mention which program you're interested in and we'll let you know when the next group is forming.