Group Therapy

Based on the well research social skills program developed by Alex Kelly, Small TALK offers the “Talkabout” Social Skills Program to school aged children and young people.

This program has 5 modules which include:

• “All about Me” – Improving awareness of self and others, physical appearance, personality, likes, dislikes.
• “Body Language” – Improving awareness and use of facial expression, eye contact, gesture, posture, distance, fidgeting and touching others.
• “The way we TALK” – Learning about the different components of speech including volume, rate, clarity, fluency, and intonation.
• “Conversations” – Learn about the different components of conversation including answering and asking questions, commenting, staying on topic and turn turn taking.
• “Assertiveness” – Learn different ways to stand up for yourself.

Small Talk also implement social skills strategies and design groups based on Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking Program and the Bridges in Social Understanding Program.