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Social Skills Support
Social Skills program aim at giving students with limited social skills, the tools to interact with peers and make friendships. However, many fail to include other children in the program and these skills are not generalised in the natural environment.
The Peer Power uses the strengths of students with excellent social skills to mentor and support their fellow students who need direct teaching to learn friendship/social skills and be truly included members of their school. Peer Power is designed to enhance the social and emotional competence of ALL students.
There is growing evidence that suggests that training neurotypical children as models is a highly effective treatment alternative for supporting children with developmental disabilities to learn play and social skills (Pierce & Schriebman).
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A Peer Power group is a small group of children who have been trained to teach play, social and communication skills to other children who have significant challenges in these areas.
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Play is a rich context through which children acquire interpersonal skills and social knowledge. Moreover, peers perform a distinct role in fostering children's socialization and development that cannot be duplicated by adults. While playing with peers, children acquire social skills to form meaningful friendships. They learn to communicate effectively, solve problems, negotiate and compromise, understand the feelings and perspectives of others, and work out emotional conflicts.
Peer Power follows the evidence-based research of school-wide positive behavioural support and peer-mediated learning.
Please contact us if you are interested to know more about the Peer Power Program