Social Skills Groups with A Balanced Alternative

The goal at A Balanced Alternative is to serve children by teaching skills through play and social skills development, build confidence and independence, and create a community that provides unity and acceptance for all children.

This resource offers a variety of facilitated social skills groups that include the following:
*Early Intervention Play Group - Children will have the opportunity to learn in a small group through play using techniques such as modeling and facilitated play
*School Readiness Play Group - Children will learn to generalize play skills into a small group and use these skills to build and develop beginner social skills such as turn taking and playing in a group.
*Early Elementary Social Skills Group - Children will have the opportunity to learn basic social skills through group learning and modeling. Children will practice appropriate coping mechanisms for difficult situations.
*Older Elementary Social Skills Group - Children will begin to build on their beginner social skills and learn to generalize these skills into their community. Children will also have the opportunity to work on using appropriate coping mechanisms in difficult situations.

In all of the social skills groups offered from this resource, the ultimate goal is to is to serve children by teaching skills through play and social skills development, build confidence and independence, and create a community that provides unity and acceptance for all children.