TALK Loves Social Groups!

The month of February is all about sharing, feelings, and love! At TALK, we love our social communication and play groups! TALK offers a variety for all ages and communication levels. Feeling and emotions are important for expressing to others how we feel and helps us understand how others feel. We teach feelings and emotions by helping our kiddos identify emotions, understand facial expressions, and improve their perspective taking abilities so that they can better understand the emotions they observe with their peers or family members.

TALK’s Play Groups are designed to help children with social language impairments improve in the following skills:

●        Early verbal and nonverbal communication (read: emotions!) related to play

●        Play that facilitates language development

●        Advocating for themselves, asking for help, and problem solving

●        Following routines and taking turns

●        Participating in symbolic, parallel, and cooperative play

●        Playing in novel ways

TALK’s Social Communication Groups are specifically designed to help children with social language impairments improve in the following skills:

●        Awareness of verbal and nonverbal social cues including recognizing emotions and how to appropriately respond

●        Perspective-taking to understand how others are feeling and reacting

●        Conversation and turn-taking

●        Abstract and inferential thinking

●        Creating and fostering friendships

●        Emotional regulation

TALK families love our social groups! One TALK parent shared that she enjoys having her son participate in a TALK social group as they have “helped tremendously with his social communication skills”. TALK’s social groups have provided her son with “opportunities to apply learned social skills in real life situations” and to work on social skills that are “addressed in everyday scenarios!”

At TALK, we are here to support and facilitate language to the best of our ability using research based techniques and a child centered approach. Our groups are designed to give children with social language impairments the ability to interact and share their feelings and emotions as well as and apply play and social communication skills learned in individual sessions with peers in therapist-guided group interactions.

Give us a call at our Burlingame office 650-344-9961 or Danville office 925-725-4632 for more information!