Social Learning:

Communication Pathways offers social learning individual and group sessions, for children and adults, in order to develop social-cognitive communication skills. Instruction is targeted for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Social Communication Disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD, Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD) and similar diagnoses, along with people experiencing social learning challenges who have no diagnosis. A variety of strategies, including the Program for the Evaluation and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) treatment framework and the Social Thinking® curriculum are integrated into all our social groups.

 

* NEW * - Dating Social Learning Group for young adults who have participated in a foundational social learning group in the past and would like to focus on learning specific skills in this area. Dating topics from the PEERS® evidence based social skills intervention will be taught through direct instruction, role play demonstrations, and behavioral rehearsal exercises.

 

Stress Management:

Our Stress Management series is focused on developing emotional self-regulation.  Sessions are designed for individuals to develop better understanding of their emotions by connecting to how their body and brain feel, and learning strategies to help keep themselves in a calm feeling state across home, work, and community. Clients meet individually or in a small group. During this time, vocabulary and concepts will be presented through activities, discussion, games and videotaping. Strategies from Leah M. Kuypers curriculum, The Zones of Regulation is also incorporated into the sessions.

 

Parent/Guardian Coaching:

These sessions offer more in-depth instruction that extend beyond the session debriefs, focusing on teaching coaching strategies and problem solving to promote faster generalization of skills for your child or young adult. Meetings happen in-person or virtually.