Seattle Asperger's Support provides social thinking groups for children and youth with Asperger's Syndrome , PDD-NOS, High functioning Autism ,ADHD and neurotypical children and youth who need social skills. 

Unlike traditional social skills groups, social thinking teaches children to 

"think social" thus laying a solid foundation for social skills. We use curriculum and materials developed by Michele Garcia Winner and her staff at her San Jose, Ca. Clinic in addition to other cognitive behavioral techniques.

     Our young clients learn how to discern what is "expected " in a social setting vs what is "unexpected" and that when they behave in ways that are 'expected" people in their social environment are comfortable around them. They also learn how to "think with their eyes" create "people files" in their brains and many other skills. Conversational skills are also stressed and we see our clients make amazing progress in their ability to use their new social thinking skills to connect with the people in their world. 

    Parent support is a very critical piece of the work that we do. Each new client attends two family sessions so we can get to know the needs of the family well and they can get to know us. We also provide foundational instruction in social thinking so when the child or youth joins the group they know key concepts. After every group session we have "parent talk time" where we go over the contents of the session and get input from parents as to how things are going at home and at school relative to the skills we are working on. We also provide handouts for home and school with key concepts and terminology explained so they can be used at home and at school with our clients.

All groups are on Saturdays. Cost is $60.00 per session. Groups run throughout the school year three Saturdays per month with breaks for school vacations. A summer program is also now available and accepting registrations. 

  We love seeing the amazing progress our clients make! They make us smile.