PEERS Social Skills Program
Our PEERS Program was recently featured on KOAA News Channel 5!
The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS® Program) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills treatment for preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, depression, and other socio-emotional problems.
The sessions cover specific social skills regarding making friends. Each session focuses on a particular component in the process, using a didactic lesson format, observing examples, behavior practice, homework assignments.
A key feature of this 14-week program is the incorporation of parents or caregivers as “social coaches” who attend concurrent sessions, then help to generalize the newly learned skills to real-world settings.
Covered skills include:
- Trading information
- Two-way conversations
- Electronic communication
- Choosing appropriate friends
- Appropriate use of humor
- Entering a conversation
- Exiting a conversation
- Get-togethers
- Good sportsmanship
- Teasing and embarrassing feedback
- Bullying and bad reputations
- Handling disagreements
- Rumors and gossip