Services – Social Skills Groups

Are you looking to build your childs play skills and have them have a blast in the process!?  Register them for our Little Buddies Play Groups!!  They will practice foundation social skills such as greeting others, following group instructions, taking turns with friends, requesting items from peers and more!  This is a great way to get your child used to having fun with their friends and being successful in a small group environment.

Prerequisites:

• Independent toileting or in diapers
• Follows simple instructions from adults without challenging behaviour, most of the time
• Your child can tolerate being near peers without challenging behaviour
• Your child does not engage in significant challenging behaviour
• Can transition between activities with some assistance without challenging behaviour

Service Details:

• Date and Time: Sat 9:00am – 12:00pm
• This program runs in 10-week blocks.
• This service is only offered in Hamilton or Etobicoke.

For more information and to register, please contact us at 416 367 5968 or at info@alphabee.com.

Have your child join us in building friendships while having fun playing games, doing science experiments and making crafts! We will also learn how to start and join a conversation as well as asking and answering questions with peers and other important skills for creating and maintaining friendships.

Prerequisites:

• Independent toileting
• Independent eating
• Can request wants/needs with 1-4 word sentences
• Will participate in play activities with some assistance
• Follows multiple instructions from adults without challenging behaviour
• Can tolerate being near peers without challenging behaviour
• Does not engage in significant challenging behaviour
• Can transition between activities independently
• Can attend to tasks or activities for up to 5 minutes
• Can sit and participate in table activities (e.g. crafts, board games) for at least 5 minutes

Service Details:

• Date and Time: Sat 9:00am – 1:00pm
• This program runs in 10-week blocks.
• This service is only offered in Hamilton or Etobicoke.

For more information and to register, please contact us at 416 367 5968 or at info@alphabee.com.

Conversation skills can be challenging for the best of us! Have your child come hang out with us and develop their conversation and cooperative play skills in a safe environment with peers who are working on similar skills. They will learn how to work together as a team to complete adventure challenges, solve missions, and make group decisions! Through these activities, along with role playing scenarios, children will build skills in communication, empathy, problem solving, compromising, and working together to achieve a common goal. Your child will benefit from learning how to use these skills with different people and in different environments.

Prerequisites:

• Participates in interactive and cooperative play with little support
• Engages in conversations with adults and peers, but may struggle with maintaining the conversation
• Follows multi-step group instructions
• Can tolerate being near peers without challenging behaviour
• Does not engage in significant challenging behaviour
• Independent toileting
• Independent eating
• Can transition between activities and tasks independently without challenging behaviour
• Can attend to lessons or engage in activities for 5+ minutes with minimal support

Service Details:

• Date and Time: Sat 9:00am -1:00pm
• This program runs in 10-week blocks.
• This service is only offered in Hamilton or Etobicoke.

For more information and to register, please contact us at 416 367 5968 or at info@alphabee.com.