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Build Strong Social Connections!

The Social Circle™ is based on Children's Friendship Training (Frankel & Myatt, 2003), an evidence based 12 week social skills program, designed to help children establish and maintain friendships. This group is offered weekly for 2 hours, on Saturday afternoons.  This group focuses on the following skills: 

• Two-way conversation skills
• Making and maintaining good friends
• Being a good sport
• Resolving conflict 
• Dealing with rejection

JumpStart™ Your Child’s Learning Journey!
JumpStart™  is designed by our Registered Behaviour Analysts and establishes essential foundational skills for success in both school and community settings.  JumpStart™ is offered on a weekly basis on Saturday mornings and runs for 12 weeks. Using the principles of applied behaviour analysis, this dynamic group experience focuses on key foundational areas such as:

• Early communication & requesting
• Engaging with peers 
• Learning effectively in a group environment
• Accepting transitions & the removal of preferred items
• Following simple instructions & staying on task
• Building attention & focus, with instructor-led activities up to 10 minutes

Big Feelings, Bright Futures!

Press Pause and Play™ is a group based emotional regulation curriculum, designed by our Registered Behaviour Analysts.  It  is offered twice a week from 3pm-5pm.  Using the principles of applied behaviour analysis, this group will teach children to:

• Label and identify emotions
• Understand and use the zones of regulation (Kuypers, 2011)  
• Learn to label and identify personal and common emotional triggers 
• Accept the removal of preferred items/activities 
• Learn effective communication strategies to mitigate emotional experiences 
• Accepting winning/losing games in a group setting 
• Learn and practice effective coping and relaxation strategies 

Sharing Stories, Building Confidence!

The Hangout Hub™ is designed by our Registered Behaviour Analysts and is offered once a week for 15 weeks. This group is offered both on Saturday afternoons and on weekdays from 3-5pm. The Conversation Corner™ is designed to support pre teens and teens in developing friendships, enhancing communication skills and establish understanding of both verbal and non verbal body language in communication. This curriculum focuses on the following skills: 

• Identifying and understanding facial expressions and tone of voice during conversations 
• Identifying and understanding appropriate body language and space during conversations 
• Labelling and demonstrating  examples of positive and negative friendships 
• Identifying,  labelling and demonstrating consent and safety in friendships and other relationships 
• Recognizing when to say no and learning to cope with rejection when others say no

Early Communicators™  establishes essential communication skills for the home, school and community environments. In a small group format, Children are taught to communicate and express their basic needs. This group is a foundational group for young children who are experiencing delays in language development as well as young children who are just beginning to learn to use augmentative communication systems (i.e. PECS).  Early Communicators™ is offered on a weekly basis during the week from 10am-12pm and runs for 12 weeks.  Early Communicators™ focuses on primary language and communication skills such as:

• Making requests for highly preferred items that are readily available 
• Requesting preferred items from both adults and peers 
• Learning to wait after making a request for a highly preferred item 
• Learning to follow visual schedules 
• Establishing early imitation skills (including oral motor imitation) 
• Learning to accept no when requesting highly preferred items and activities 
• Responding to group instructions