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At Good Talking People LLC, we believe that social skills are the end product of well-developed social cognition or social thinking and communication. GTP utilizes evidence based methodologies to provide strategies to help children, teens, and adults build the social competencies they need to navigate the social world. Our methodologies work to develop better social cognition, including social reasoning, social interpretation, social memory and social expression, utilizing a multi-sensory, developmental and pragmatic approach to social skills training.  Through structured lessons and real-life experiences, individuals learn to think about their own and others’ thoughts and feelings, use flexible thinking, and develop social problem solving skills.  

Our programs are individually designed for each group to explore the communication, social interactions and social thinking that support successful and rewarding peer relationships, family interactions, recreation, occupational and professional relationships and academic achievement. 

Our programs teach skills ranging from joint attention and shared interests, adapting to expected behavior, emotions and self-regulation to verbal and nonverbal social cues to perspective, flexibility and problem solving.

Good Talking People LLC provides individual and group therapy to assist in the development of pragmatic language, social communication and social learning. .

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Individual Sessions

Individual sessions are available in 45 or 60-minute intervals, specifically created for more targeted goals and specific support to help understand and navigate the social environment. Individual sessions are also recommended for clients who require more opportunity to develop the necessary prerequisite social tools to improve success in the group experience

Group Social Skills

Good Talking People’s cutting edge Social Learning programs and groups are for clients with social learning challenges, preschool through adulthood designed to meet the ever-changing social demands across a lifespan. Offering year round social skills groups including intensive summer camps.

All group session run for 60-minutes with the last 5-10 minutes devoted to parent/caregiver education so concepts can be generalized in the home, classroom, work and/or community. 

Take that first step.

Social Prep

A beginning program designed to introduce the concepts of social thinking® created by the work of renowned expert Michelle Garcia Winner. This program has been developed to jump start social learning and prepare one for inclusion in one of our social thinking groups. Social Prep will focus on the 10 basic concepts of the Social Thinking® model, including, thinking thoughts and feeling feelings, the group plan, thinking with your eyes, body in the group, listening with our body, hidden rules, and expected & unexpected behaviors, smart guesses, flexible & stuck thinking, size of the problem, and sharing an imagination. Sessions will be designed according to each individual’s needs and learning style. The client will:

  • Develop and increase social awareness and functional listening behaviors
  • Become familiar and learn social thinking® vocabulary and concepts
  • Learn how to use social tools to understand what is expected
  • Learn how to make smart guesses and become better social thinkers

Social Gatherings

Social is not just about being able to make friends, the really important part of being social is thinking about other people & what they’re thinking about you! Social thinking is a 24/7 skill. It happens whenever you are near another person, even if you have no plans to ever talk to that person. Now the doing part of social thinking is what we usually call social skills.

In our society, we have to interact with other people in order to survive. We interact with our family members, our classmates & teachers/professors, when we shop for groceries or browse in a store, when we are at our workplace, we are always expected to be using social thinking and subsequent good social skills.

A social Gathering will offer you opportunities to:

  • Meet new people
  • Enhance social interactions
  • Enjoy fun recreational activities such as
    • Bowling
    • Trivia Night
    • Dancing
    • Costume Parties
    • Karaoke
    • Crafts, games, prizes & more! 

Tweens/Teens– a time for tweens/teens 11-18 years to “hang-out” and engage with others, to develop peer relationships, reduce social anxiety, & practice social strategies.

Adults– a dynamic forum designed by adults for adults. Gatherings will focus on various topics/concerns/issues/ skills & abilities related to social learning.

Upcoming  Social Gathering Events:

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Social Learning programs are largely based on the Social Thinking® teaching framework created by Michelle Garcia Winner. For more information visit her website at www.socialthinking.com.

This program, including its teacher or leader, is not affiliated with, nor has it been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by Michelle Garcia Winner and Think Social Publishing, Inc

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