Social Skills - KidsLink
A place where many children and teens who experience difficulty fitting in with their peers, come to feel safe and learn the skills necessary to improve their social world.
Through once weekly groups during the school year the KIDSLINK team helps children identify what’s getting in their way socially, name it, and learn strategies and coping skills to compensate for these difficulties.
Our social skills groups run throughout the school year.
Through once weekly groups during the school year the KIDSLINK team helps children identify what’s getting in their way socially, name it, and learn strategies and coping skills to compensate for these difficulties.
Skills that are focused on include:
- Friendship skills
- Coping with feelings
- Ability to control impulses
- Conversation skills
- Successful play skills
- Developing a sense of belonging with their peers
Our social skills groups run throughout the school year. Each weekly session is one hour in length and has a maximum of six participants facilitated by trained therapists. In their small groups, teens and children learn to relate and communicate with their peers using the language of art, drama, games and play.
The groups are designed to help children foster a sense of belonging with other children who may also be experiencing similar strengths and differences within their own lives, and may have neurodiverse brain styles such as autism, ADHD, sensory processing differences, speech differences and delays, gifted children or 2e children, SLDs such as dyslexia, dysgrahpia or dyscalculia, and intellectual disability.
Read about the real life experience of one of our KidsLink families.
How To Begin
We conduct a one hour interview to give your family an opportunity to meet us, see the physical space where the groups take place and address any concerns you have. It also gives us the opportunity to assess your child’s needs and determine which of our groups best “fit”.
Please note that there is a fee for this initial interview, and parents and child should both attend the session. Contact us at Spencer Health on 02 9960 1222 to discuss your needs or email us.
Lego Group – Social Skills Program
Due to the success of our school holiday Lego Club, Spencer Health are excited to be launching ongoing Lego Groups at our Mosman site!
LEGO Based Therapy is a well-researched and effective therapy designed to support the development of social skills such as sharing, turn-taking, and establishing lasting relationships with peers.