Ensuring Students Have Age-Appropriate Social Skills
But what if they don’t like me…
As the school year starts to settle and students are found their friend groups; socializing can be made exceptionally harder for some students. They may feel as if no one wants to socialize with them now because they all have their own friends or that they waited too long to make friends. This can then discourage them from making friends at all, which may lead to isolation and an unhappy school life.
Friends help make school fun. They help encourage us when an assignment or task may be too hard, work on projects with us, hang out with us at lunch and after school, and are a companion to help us through life. Without them, school can feel scary. Kids can feel like they are alone, leading them to lack self-advocacy skills and hold all their negative emotions inside.
This can then lead to emotional outburst, causing them to become even more socially isolated since almost no one wants to hang out with someone who screams at them all the time. They may then try to avoid school all together, causing their grades to also slip, and if they do not work on these skills now, these issues will follow them into adulthood, causing them to become at risk for “failure to launch.” However, the Support for Students Growth Center had the tools to help with that.
At the Support for Students Growth Center, we offer social, behavioral, educational, emotional, and executive functioning skills services children, teens, young adults, and their families, who may be Neurodivergent or not 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 socialize to ensure parents do not have
to worry that their kids will be unable to make and maintain a functioning independent life 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.
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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.
