Social Skills and Behavior Support

This social skills group focuses on providing a strong foundation of concepts that are required for social success. Areas of concentration include: friendship skills, body language awareness, cooperation, listening, perspective taking/awareness, self regulation, and emotional management. Skills are taught through both direct teaching of concepts and real-time practice in activities planned in the group. 

Functional behavior assessment is generally considered to be an approach that incorporates a variety of techniques and strategies to diagnose the causes and to identify likely interventions intended to address problem behaviors. In other words, a functional behavior assessment looks beyond the overt topography of the behavior, and focuses, instead upon identifying biological, social, affective, and environmental factors that initiate, sustain, or end the behavior in question.