Task Completion

But I don’t want to…

As school picks up again, children may find it difficult to transition from a summer environment back to an educational one, especially if they struggle with executive dysfunction. School requires children, teens, and young adults to be consistent with their task completion skills. Whether it be in school with classwork and cleaning up after yourself or at home with homework and chores, following through with tasks is important for students. Although they may be good at initiating them, actually finishing them can be hard for some, especially those with neurodivergent traits. They may get distracted, bored, or overwhelmed when trying to finish whatever task they need to complete, so they may begin to push their responsibilities off as a result. Yet, as they continue to do that, more and more of the tasks that need to get done begin to pile up, causing them to become more anxious, depressed and overwhelmed as it all becomes too much to finish, so eventually they begin to avoid their responsibilities altogether.

This cycle can cause more problems than just falling behind in school. It can cause other issues such as anxiety, depression, isolation, and so much more, which is why making sure that children, teens, and young adults have developed executive functioning skills, such as task completion, is so important. At the Support for Students Growth Center, we provide the social, behavioral, emotional, and executive functioning skills children, teens, young adults, and their families need for a happy and successful life in and out of school settings. Our team of professionals offers individualized and family coaching/counseling and social skills groups to help teach skills such as how to actively complete tasks to ensure parents do not have to worry that their kids will be unable to be the best they can be in and out of school setting on their own. So, if your child is struggling with skills like the ones listed above and much more, the SSGC is equipped with the tools to help.


Click here and call now to schedule your FREE 20-minute individualized screening- $150 value

Dr. Eric J. Nach, Ph.D., M.Ed., A.S.D.C., is a Developmental and Behavioral Specialist who specializes in Autism, ADHD and related disorders. Dr. Nach is the founder of the Support for Students Growth Center and College Life Skills Program where he and his team of professional’s help develop the Emotional Maturity, Executive Functioning, Life Skill and Social Abilities of children, teens, young adults and college students and those high school students preparing for college.

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Reading Facial Expressions

But I don’t really know…

As we get older, we typically begin to learn how to understand others’ emotions, even without words. Whether it’s a frown or a bright smile, our faces can tell a lot about our current thoughts and emotions to the people we are around without even speaking. It can show others if we are feeling happy or sad, or if we are in the mood to talk or not, which can be especially helpful when in a social setting. This skill can allow us to properly respond to how our friends and peers are feeling, while also making the interaction comfortable for both parties since if you can read facial expressions, you can identify how to act around that person properly, all without words.

However, for those with neurodivergent traits, reading facial expressions can be difficult. They may find it hard to directly pinpoint an emotion to an expression, so at times, they may not realize they had said something to upset their peers or are socializing with someone who may be having a bad day, which can deter them from wanting to socialize at all. Whether they are in elementary, middle, high school, or about to go into college, reading facial expressions is a crucial skill to have. It can guide them to react and say the proper things in certain social situations, help them make and maintain friendships, as well as feel confident in their ability to react properly to the other person in the conversation. Without it, kids, teens, and young adults may feel as if socializing is too stressful, which can cause them to want to avoid it all together before leading to other issues such as isolation, depression, anxiety and many more. Yet, even if they may be struggling, this skill can be taught and generalized into many different social settings.

At the Support for Students Growth Center, we provide the social, behavioral, emotional, and executive functioning skills children, teens, young adults, and their families need for a happy and successful life in and out of school settings. Our team of professionals offers individualized and family coaching/counseling and social skills groups to help teach skills such as how to be actively reading others facial expressions and body language to ensure parents do not have to worry that their kids will be unable to make and maintain friendships and utilize age appropriate social skills on their own. So, if your child is struggling with skills like the ones listed above and much more, the SSGC is equipped with the tools to help.


Click here and call now to schedule your FREE 20-minute individualized screening- $200 value

Dr. Eric J. Nach, Ph.D., M.Ed., A.S.D.C., is a Developmental and Behavioral Specialist who specializes in Autism, ADHD and related disorders. Dr. Nach is the founder of the Support for Students Growth Center and College Life Skills Program where he and his team of professional’s help develop the Emotional Maturity, Executive Functioning, Life Skill and Social Abilities of children, teens, young adults and college students and those high school students preparing for college.

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Enrollment is now open

ENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN!

We welcome you to participate in our tenth (10) year offering our

Therapeutic Social Skills Groups,

which are proven to help children, teens, and young adults become equipped with the skills they need to communicate well with peers and others in and out of school and other social settings. Each of our fourteen (14) weekly groups are arranged based on the age, abilities, and needs of the potential group members (ages 5 – mid-20’s) to ensure that they are in a therapeutic setting that can help them reach their fullest potential. With over ninety (90) topics and more than a dozen different social skills groups that meet weekly, group members will learn new to use social skills through brainstorming, direct instruction, modeling and role-playing as they participate in cooperative activities, where they can be confident in not only their ability to understand and actually use the skills they are learning. This then makes socializing and overall interacting with others more enjoyable and productive. Parent component is included with each session to encourage generalization of key skills. Groups are held in our Boca Raton, FL center.  (“Call now to schedule your free initial 20-minute individualized screening”)

https://www.supportforstudentsgrowthcenter.com

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