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Social Skills

Social Skills & Peer Groups

Direct email contact: socialskills@www.tclowser.cmp.datachievereview.xyz

We offer both structured, curriculum-based groups and individualized peer-matched groups.

Our evidence-based social skills programs include:

In addition, we provide individualized weekly social skills groups in which children are carefully matched with a small group of peers who share similar developmental profiles, interests, and goals. These groups emphasize real-world practice in navigating friendship, perspective-taking, problem-solving, and flexibility within mainstream social environments.

We offer structured, evidence-based social skills programs as well as individualized peer-matched groups. Each program is developmentally aligned and designed to provide direct instruction, supported practice, and real-world generalization.

Preschool PEERS® (Ages 4–6)

Our Preschool PEERS® program is designed for young children who would benefit from direct instruction in foundational friendship skills.

This is a 14 week program that meets weekly for 75 minutes.

Skills Children Will Practice:

  • Foundational Social Communication: Listening to and following directions, using peers’ names, and greeting friends appropriately.
  • Play & Friendship Skills: Sharing materials, taking turns, asking for turns, joining ongoing play, and inviting peers to play together.
  • Emotional & Behavioral Regulation: Managing big feelings during play, staying calm when challenges arise, using an inside voice, and maintaining appropriate personal space.
  • Flexibility & Positive Peer Interactions: Practicing flexibility, handling changes in play, and learning how to be a good sport.
  • Smooth Transitions: Moving between activities and routines with greater independence and ease.

The PEERS for Preschoolers group runs for 14 weeks on Thursdays 3:30pm – 4:45pm. The group is capped at 6 participants. A pre-group screening appointment is completed prior to group enrollment to ensure readiness. 

Group cost: $4,800

To set up a screening appointment, email socialskills@www.tclowser.cmp.datachievereview.xyz or complete the contact us form below.

Children’s Friendship Training (CFT) (Ages 8–12)

Children’s Friendship Training is a structured, evidence-based program for school-age children working to build and maintain reciprocal friendships.

This is a 12 week program that meets weekly for 75 minutes.

Skills Children Will Practice:

  • Foundational Social Communication: Starting and maintaining conversations with peers, trading information, asking follow-up questions, and showing interest in others’ ideas and activities.
  • Joining Peer Groups: Learning how to appropriately enter ongoing play, observe what peers are doing, and join group activities without disrupting the flow of the game.
  • Friendship Development: Identifying shared interests, building friendship networks, and practicing strategies for developing and maintaining friendships over time.
  • Playdate & Social Planning Skills: Learning how to invite peers to play, organize activities during playdates, and practice being a good host or guest.
  • Sportsmanship & Cooperative Play: Practicing good sportsmanship, following rules during games, and responding appropriately to winning, losing, and changes in play.
  • Handling Teasing & Social Challenges: Developing strategies for responding to teasing, managing rejection, and maintaining confidence in challenging social situations.
  • Conflict Prevention & Problem Solving: Recognizing escalating situations, avoiding arguments or physical conflicts, and using respectful strategies to resolve disagreements with peers.

The Children’s Friendship Training (CFT) group runs for 12 weeks on Thursdays, 5pm – 6:15pm. The group is capped at 8 participants. A pre-group screening appointment is completed prior to group enrollment to ensure readiness. 

Group cost: $3,000

To set up a screening appointment, email socialskills@www.tclowser.cmp.datachievereview.xyz or complete the contact us form below.

PEERS® for Adolescents and Young Adults (Ages 13+)

Our PEERS® program for adolescents and young adults focuses on higher-level friendship and relationship skills.

This is a 14 week program that meets weekly for 90 minutes.

Skills Teens Will Practice:

  • Foundational Social Communication: Starting and maintaining conversations with peers, trading information, asking follow-up questions, and showing interest in others’ ideas and activities.
  • Joining Peer Groups: Learning how to appropriately enter group conversation, observe what peers are doing, and join group activities without disrupting the flow of the game.
  • Friendship Development: Identifying shared interests, building friendship networks, and practicing strategies for developing and maintaining friendships over time.
  • Get Togethers & Social Planning Skills: Learning how to invite peers for a get together, organize activities, and practice being a good host or guest.
  • Sportsmanship & Cooperation: Practicing good sportsmanship, following rules during games, and responding appropriately to winning, losing, and changes in games.
  • Handling Teasing & Social Challenges: Developing strategies for responding to teasing, managing rejection, and maintaining confidence in challenging social situations.
  • Conflict Prevention & Problem Solving: Recognizing escalating situations, avoiding arguments or physical conflicts, and using respectful strategies to resolve disagreements with peers.

The PEERS for Teens group runs for 14 weeks on Thursdays, 5pm – 6:30pm. The group is capped at 10 participants. A pre-group screening appointment is completed prior to group enrollment to ensure readiness. 

Group cost: $4,200

To set up a screening appointment, email socialskills@www.tclowser.cmp.datachievereview.xyz or complete the contact us form below.

LEGO®-Based Social Skills Groups (Summer Program)

Our LEGO®-Based Social Skills Groups are collaborative, play-based programs designed to support communication, teamwork, flexibility, and problem-solving.

These groups are offered as a summer program. Children work together in structured roles to complete LEGO builds, which naturally promotes: 

  • Cooperative problem-solving
  • Perspective-taking
  • Flexible thinking
  • Emotional regulation during group work
  • Shared goal completion

The LEGO format allows children to practice social skills in a motivating, interest-based context that reduces performance pressure and increases engagement.

The LEGO® Based Social Skills Groups runs for 6 weeks in July – August on Thursdays, 4:30pm – 5:30pm. Each group is capped at 8 participants. A pre-group screening appointment is completed prior to group enrollment to ensure readiness. 

Group cost: $1,875

To set up a screening appointment, email socialskills@www.tclowser.cmp.datachievereview.xyz or complete the contact us form below.

Individualized Peer-Matched Groups

In addition to structured curricula, we offer weekly small groups in which children are carefully matched with peers who share similar developmental profiles, interests, and social goals.

These groups emphasize real-time coaching, supported practice, and gradual fading of adult scaffolding to build authentic peer interaction skills.