Is your child ready for the social challenges of school? With all of our normal emphasis on academic preparedness as the school year approaches, our child's social learning and its importance can often be overlooked. For most children who are considered "neurotypical", social learning/thinking is innate and begins from birth. Social thinking, which was a term coined by Michelle Garcia Winner (speech-language pathologist), is a type of intelligence that is essential to learning about concepts and integrating learned information across settings- including academic, social, home, and community.
For our students who have difficulties learning, understanding, and/or applying socially relevant information, school presents with challenges beyond the traditionally thought-of "social time"- friends, lunchroom, and recess time. They can also experience frustration in academics, particularly in reading comprehension and written expression. Also, as social dynamics become more complex through elementary, middle, and high school grades, these students struggle more and more to interpret social nuances of their peers and to "keep up".
Our students with social thinking and learning difficulties often present with diagnoses such as High Functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS, Non-Verbal Learning Disability, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Child and Family Development offers Social Thinking ® groups led by Elaine Byrd. These groups focus on teaching students how to recognize their own and others’ social minds, navigate their behaviors in a social world, and successfully adapt to people and situations. Please visit the C&FD website or contact me at (704) 541-9080 x213 for more information!
For our students who have difficulties learning, understanding, and/or applying socially relevant information, school presents with challenges beyond the traditionally thought-of "social time"- friends, lunchroom, and recess time. They can also experience frustration in academics, particularly in reading comprehension and written expression. Also, as social dynamics become more complex through elementary, middle, and high school grades, these students struggle more and more to interpret social nuances of their peers and to "keep up".
Our students with social thinking and learning difficulties often present with diagnoses such as High Functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS, Non-Verbal Learning Disability, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Child and Family Development offers Social Thinking ® groups led by Elaine Byrd. These groups focus on teaching students how to recognize their own and others’ social minds, navigate their behaviors in a social world, and successfully adapt to people and situations. Please visit the C&FD website or contact me at (704) 541-9080 x213 for more information!
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