Playtime Pals - Guelph - BSS Social Skills Group

Playtime Pals is designed to enhance early social skills through routine, repetition, and peer interaction within a structured group learning framework. Your child will have the opportunity to build and expand their social skills with novel peers by practicing greetings, turn taking, sharing, initiating play, following instructions and whole body listening. Lessons are taught using modelling, role-play, group games/activities, stories and interactive group discussions.

To improve social and play skills through:

• Behaviour Skills Training on weekly topics (instruction, modelling, rehearsal, feedback)
• Prompting and reinforcement to teach priority goals each session
• Data collection to assess acquisition of priority goals

Group Goals:

• Greeting peers
• Asking a friend to play
• Taking two turns with a peer using a simple turn-taking game
• Demonstrating whole body listening in a group setting
• Following two group instructions in routine situations

Families will receive a summary of recommendations outlining the strategies developed through each week of group to continue to apply your learning in other settings. By registering for this group, you are committing to attending all session dates.

Dates: 4:30-6:30pm on Thursdays in Guelph from April 20^th – June 22^nd, 2023