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