Social Butterflies combines fun, interactive activities with opportunities to improve social skills in a therapeutic environment.  This group is designed to teach and encourage children to socially interact appropriately with their peers in one-on-one and group situations. 

• Sensory motor / motor planning skills
• Sequential gross motor activities
• Sensory strategies to maintain or achieve a calm alert state to facilitate optimal communication skills
• Body Basics
• Non-verbal communication
• Eye contact
• Use of and reading facial expressions
• Use of gestures
• Interactive communication
• Peer interaction with and without structure
• Social problem solving and turn taking during structured activities/conversations
• Conversational communication
• Appropriate ways to gain attention of a peer to start a conversation
• Initiation of conversations through the use of appropriate questions and/or sentences
• Maintaining the topic of conversation and monitoring for when too much information is given or not enough
• Ending a conversation appropriately
• Comprehension of conversational communication
• “Who, what, where, when, how” questions within structured and unstructured settings
• Retention and visual/verbal sequencing skills within structured and unstructured settings