Social Skills Training:

Many parents have an urgent feeling to get their children into a group with other peers to learn social skills.  Although it sounds good on the surface, social skills groups are not effective and have even been harmful.  The problem is that you can't expect to learn social skills from other children who don't have social skills.  We understand this and provide two alternatives:

• Social Skills therapy for parents with their children.  Parents and children attend group together and work on practicing specific, therapist directed social skills.
  

• Individual Skills training.  A trained skills worker will work with your child to help them learn the skills they need to survive in a variety of settings, including groups.  The difference between CrossRoads and all the others is that we teach the process and don't just provide the solution.  By just providing the solution, without teaching the process, the child does not know how to arrive at solutions on his or her own.