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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 540302" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>The idea is great...congrats! It has been over ten years ago that I enrolled difficult child#2 in such a group. Randomly here are some of the things I remember that "might" be helpful. The group was limited to six kids around the same age. The meeting was not held outside but in a conference room (the idea being to contain attention). There was a format like there is for meetings. Self introductions by name only..which included the "staff". There were assigned seats so that each week the children would more easily remember each other i.e. the girl with the cat sits next to me.</p><p>Parents were not included in the sessions although one parent a week was invivted to come sit unobtrusively as a non participatory observer. The group leader remained the same each week however there was a team present and the leader would chose different team members to lead an exercise. Each week one child would be encouraged to tell the group about his/her life. Prompting was utilized so anxiety would not build. Then each of the other children would be asked to share back something that they now knew about their new friend. Most often the children would remember "she has a cat named Fluffy" which others would try to repeat but there was improvement in recalling personal facts as the sessions passed. They played a game that included each person adding a piece (seems like it was called gingo or something ??) to learn cooperative skills. The staff gave a very very short report for the kids to give to their parents. The report would be positive like "Jimmy listened to others today."</p><p></p><p>Don't know if this is helpful or not but I did help our gs. I really feel it was best to exclude parents from the meetings. The staff could be supplemented by volunteer college students perhaps. Just remembered the kids were seated with an empty chair adjacent to them so their was no accidental "bumping" or whatever. I'll be following your post because I have my fingers crossed you all can benefit from this new activity. Hugs DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 540302, member: 35"] The idea is great...congrats! It has been over ten years ago that I enrolled difficult child#2 in such a group. Randomly here are some of the things I remember that "might" be helpful. The group was limited to six kids around the same age. The meeting was not held outside but in a conference room (the idea being to contain attention). There was a format like there is for meetings. Self introductions by name only..which included the "staff". There were assigned seats so that each week the children would more easily remember each other i.e. the girl with the cat sits next to me. Parents were not included in the sessions although one parent a week was invivted to come sit unobtrusively as a non participatory observer. The group leader remained the same each week however there was a team present and the leader would chose different team members to lead an exercise. Each week one child would be encouraged to tell the group about his/her life. Prompting was utilized so anxiety would not build. Then each of the other children would be asked to share back something that they now knew about their new friend. Most often the children would remember "she has a cat named Fluffy" which others would try to repeat but there was improvement in recalling personal facts as the sessions passed. They played a game that included each person adding a piece (seems like it was called gingo or something ??) to learn cooperative skills. The staff gave a very very short report for the kids to give to their parents. The report would be positive like "Jimmy listened to others today." Don't know if this is helpful or not but I did help our gs. I really feel it was best to exclude parents from the meetings. The staff could be supplemented by volunteer college students perhaps. Just remembered the kids were seated with an empty chair adjacent to them so their was no accidental "bumping" or whatever. I'll be following your post because I have my fingers crossed you all can benefit from this new activity. Hugs DDD [/QUOTE]
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