Comprehensive Child Social Skills and Parenting Groups
The Loyola Clinical Centers (LCC) offers comprehensive social skills training for youth aged 5-14. Group sessions, which typically last an hour per week for a series of 8 to 10 weeks, provide children with an engaging, lively, and supportive social environment in which to master essential daily social skills. Group members learn through fun skill building activities and games, as well as role-play and direct skill instruction. Group topics are customized to each group based on client needs.
Examples of group topics include:
- Meeting and greeting people
- Initiating and maintaining conversations
- Solving and negotiating problems
- Compromising and being flexible
- Identifying and managing emotions and stress within self
- Working together as a team and positive sportsmanship
- Reading nonverbal communication
- Turn-taking and other social norms
- Understanding inner versus outer thoughts
Groups are led by students in speech-language pathology and are supervised by at a licensed professional faculty member. Groups are offered in the fall, spring, and summer.
Fee Comparison Chart
| Average Community Rate | LCC Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL-AGEd Social Skills Groups | $100 - $150 per session | $20 per session |