SOCIAL SKILLS

your success is our mission

HERE AT BEHAVIOUR AND PLAY, WE HAVE MADE IT OUR MISSION TO UNDERSTAND CHILDREN FOR YOU.

We believe children’s well-being and development are important for healthy peer relationships. Your relationship with your child sets the foundation for their future relationships. Social skills might include things like initiating conversations, making friends, handing bullying effectively, expressing feelings appropriately, and having good sportsmanship. 

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LACK OF SOCIAL SKILLS RESULTS IN

• Impulsivity
• Bullying
• Social isolation
• Inability to relate to others
• Getting caught up in gossip and other inappropriate behaviours
• Lack of conflict resolution

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At Behaviour and Play, we have an intensive one-on-one program; teaching social skills that is specific to the individual child. Social skills 1:1 is for any child that finds it difficult in picking up on social cues and behaviours. Some children have underdeveloped or lacking in social skills. Once our one-on-one intensive program is completed and the child has developed these skills, we place them in small social groups to practice these social skills. Peer relationships provide children with the development and enhancement of social skills. In addition, peer relationships provide opportunities that are not learned in adult relationships. Taking part in small social groups will further develop and boost children’s self-esteem when interacting with other children. Making and keeping friends is a crucial skill that children need to thrive in society.

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Our small social skills group programs focus on teaching specific social skills. Within these groups’ children practice social rules and social skills. These are the nitty-gritty that goes into making and keeping friends. The benefit of social success is by making friends which builds self-esteem and transferring to other areas in life. A big part of social success is learning and practicing these skills. Within our groups, practicing social skills are fun-filled activities and games that are usually active, and highly movement-oriented.