Our monthly social groups focus on targeted social and language skills in a small group setting among peers of approximately the same ages. Clients will get a chance to practice social communication skills (that are both relevant and individualized to the client's communicative and cultural environments). The social communication skills that will be targeted include social interactions, social cognition, pragmatics, language processing, and more.
Communicating with two or more people
Gaining understanding about what others may be thinking in order to appropriately plan a course of action and respond in social interactions
Verbal and nonverbal rules of conversations and social exchanges
Internal creation and interpretation of language that is spoken and heard
Conflict resolution
Group activities (teamwork)
Decision making (reasoning)
Code switching (shifting from one language or dialect to another depending on the context)
Self-regulation (monitoring one's behavior and emotional state)
Theory of mind
Understanding of what others may be thinking (intentions) or feeling (desires) and realizing that these mental states may be different from our own
Adapting behavior and language based on current mental states of others
Forming connections based on shared emotional states
Executive function (regulating and coordinating behaviors including organization, planning, prioritizing, attention, self-monitoring)
Joint attention (shared attention)
Inferencing (drawing conclusions using reasoning)
Presupposition
Communication intentions and functions (requests, comments, demands, promises)
Prosody (rhythm and intonation of speech)
Discourse (style of language [narration, conversation, expository], topic maintenance, turn-taking)
Nonverbal communication (body language, gestures, facial expressions, gaze shifts)
expression and comprehension of spoken and/or written language
Morphology (word structure)
Syntax (sentence structure)
Semantics (meaning of words [vocabulary])
Phonological skills (knowledge and understanding of speech sounds applied to spelling and reading)
ASHA. Components of Social Communication. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/social-communication-disorder/components-of-social-communication/
Speech and Language Therapy Services
Located at 3916 Bergenline Ave 2nd Fl, Union City NJ 07087
Phone: 201-201-5787
Email: info@holguirsl.com
Instagram: @holguirsl
Facebook: www.facebook.com/holguirsl/