SCORE - Social Skills Groups

Social Communication Organisation Regulation Engagement

Future Steps SCORE Group is aimed at improving the quality of life for children with social and communication difficulties, whether this means making and maintaining valued friendships, communicating needs within the family unit or ability to engage with new people. The SCORE Group is a staged after school programme that has goals and aims every week. The group is based on age and children must be able to cope within mainstream school without a one-to-one for the group to be effective.

• Communication and social interactions with peers and adults

• Sharing skills

• Turn taking skills

• Listening skills

• Reduce anxiousness in social situations

• Working as part of a team

• Cooperating with others and making friends

• Showing empathy/understanding for other people’s feelings

• Ability to give and follow instructions.

• Verbal and non-verbal communication skills

• Understanding feelings

• Develop child’s level of play towards the higher, more social play levels of associative and cooperative where they take on a role within a game or/and adhere to rules within a game.

• Engagement in games that involve winning and losing and coping with this in an appropriate manner

• Social skills around everyday tasks such as meeting new people, paying at the shop and choosing meals at a restaurant

Junior Level – Age Range: 6-11