Club Social is a social pragmatics group designed to help teach children social skills and maximize their language-based social thinking abilities. Club Social’s goal is to help children create positive social interactions with peers and adults while also giving them skills to be able to identify emotions / feelings that occur in day to day life as well as in stories and academic contexts.

Club Social was built around the concept that social skills and relationship building needs to be explicitly taught to some learners. The foundation of the social club is a comfortable environment where social skills can be taught, practiced and used right away. It is our belief that skills get stronger by using them, that we improve our social skills when we have opportunities to be social. Our mission is to give children the tools they need to succeed socially and feel confident in those tools to keep on using them.

Each group is led by a Clinical Social Worker and a Speech-Language Pathologist. The group follows a hands-on curriculum that uses a model of teaching, practicing and reviewing. The activities are age appropriate and fun and meant to incorporate new strategies into fun activities that will feel natural. The clinicians will provide the activity and the strategies and the kids will feel like they are hanging out.

The group will facilitate and give online positive and constructive feedback to work toward improving awkward and uncomfortable social situations. The group will also work on identifying and expressing one’s feelings and extending those abilities be able to make text to self-connections in stories to carryover the skill to academic skill sets.