Social Skills and Connection

Social skills are part of confidence, connection, independence, and long term opportunity.

For children, teens, and young adults with developmental differences, learning challenges, anxiety, ADHD, autism, or complex needs, social skills may affect school success, friendships, emotional regulation, employment, and adult independence.

Healing Complex Kids® shares these resources to help families support social growth in practical, respectful, and developmentally appropriate ways.

How to ABA

Plan a Play Date

Patino, Erica

FAQs About Social Skills Groups

Griffin, R. (n.d.).

7 study group tips for kids with social skills

challenges

Robson, Dyan

19 Questions to Ask To Help Decide Which Therapies Are

Right For Your Autistic Child

Kaplan Early Learning Company. (n.d.)

Teaching children the 7 C's

of social and emotional learning

Starts Here Parents

This is Why You Should Worry About Your ADHD Kid’s Social Skills

Kaiser, Emily

21 Questions Parents Can Ask Teachers about their

Child’s Social Emotional Growth,

Schad, Natalie

19 Key Questions to Ask an ABA Therapist (with Answers)

Edelman, Gay

How to Make Friends: A Guide for Kids with ADHD

(and Their Parents, Too)

Winner, M.G

Think Social

Winner, M. G., & Crooke, P.

You are a social detective! Explaining

social thinking to kids (2nd ed.).

LeVos, J. S.

Emotions for kids

Empowering Parents: A Guide to Social-emotional Learning

The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills programs to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in developing and maintaining close friendships and/or romantic relationships.

First developed at UCLA by PEERS® Clinic director, Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, the program has expanded to locations across the United States, has been translated into over a dozen languages, and is used in over 150 countries across the globe.