ABA Group Therapy 

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Hand lead to ask for what they want.
• Inconsistently use up to 10 words 
• Can copy (mimic) some sounds or words.

Who is not a fit?

Your child may not meet the prerequisite skill requirements if they:

• Speak in two-word sentences with a 50+ word vocabulary 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target include: 

• Learning to exchange picture cards and/or use single words to request items they want .
• Using picture exchange and/or single words in new places, with new people and across distances .
• Tolerating being away from a caregiver for up to 1 hour .
• Responding to their name by looking at the speaker .
• Additional, more advanced goals include requesting, commenting and starting to string together two words.

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use a communication system (e.g., vocal, sign language, PECS or other AAC system). 
• Respond to their name. 
• Can follow basic instructions. 
• Are interested in toys and play.

Who is not a fit?

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Use less than 20 words. 
• Are not speaking in short sentences of three words or more. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Greet an adult by waving or saying “hi” or “bye” 
• Make requests and respond to peer requests 
• Ask peers to stop an undesirable behaviour 
• Demonstrate coping behaviour during challenging situations 
• Request to join peers in play 
• Ask a question or make a comment in conversations

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can request 5 or more items using single words, pictures or sign.
• Can be understood by a new person.
• Respond to their name.
• Use words in context and with intent. Example: Saying the word “fork” when sitting at the table or saying “dog” when they see a dog.
• Can repeat single words at least 80% of the time.
• Can follow simple instructions such as “Sit down”, “Come here” or “Stop”.
• Can participate in a group lesson for at least 5 minutes.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not communicate using single words, pictures or sign.
• Communicate fluently using back and forth conversation. Example: “My favourite colours are blue and purple. What about you?”
• Speak in full sentences. Example: “I don’t want to go to the park today because we were there last week.”
• Can ask “wh-” questions (who, what, where, when and why) independently.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Selecting 15-20 different items or pictures
• Learning to request missing items without being prompted
• Following two-step instructions
• Speaking 10 two-part requests like “Go fast,” or “Pour juice”
• Making 10 two-part observations about their environment like “Ball rolling,” or “Toy spinning”
• Requesting others’ attention by saying things like “Look at this,” or “Listen to me”

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use a communication system (e.g., vocal, sign language, PECS or other AAC system).
• Respond to their name.
• Can follow basic instructions.
• Are interested in toys and play.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Use less than 20 words.
• Are not speaking in short sentences of three words or more.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Greet an adult by waving or saying “hi” or “bye”
• Make requests and respond to peer requests
• Ask peers to stop an undesirable behaviour
• Request to join peers in play
• Ask a question or make a comment in conversations

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use sentences to ask and answer questions.
• Understand and follow 1-step instructions.
• Can recall and describe past events.
• Can participate in (up to) 20-minute group sessions without disruption.
• Can work independently in a group for 5 minutes.
• Experience worry, anger, or intense emotions that interfere with day-to-day activities

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not respond to individual or group instructions.
• Do not follow group routines.
• Have difficulty with language or communication.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Identifying emotions
• Identifying two personal values
• Identifying behaviours that are in line with values
• Describing what happens to your body when you are angry
• Learning ways to calm your body

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can speak about things that interest them.
• Can play board games.
• Are interested in making friends and socializing with peers.
• Are able to sit and participate in a group lesson or activity for at least 15 minutes.
• Are at a typical classroom placement (working at grade level).

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Are not speaking in full sentences. 
• Do not show interest in making a friend. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Joining a group that is already at play 
• Handling being turned down by others 
• Taking turns as a listener in conversations 
• Taking turns speaking in conversation (asking questions, waiting until the other person is finished) 
• Identifying 3 good and 3 bad qualities of a friend 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can request 5 or more items using single words, pictures or sign.
• Can be understood by a new person.
• Respond to their name.
• Use words in context and with intent. Example: Saying the word “fork” when sitting at the table or saying “dog” when they see a dog.
• Can repeat single words at least 80% of the time.
• Can follow simple instructions such as “Sit down”, “Come here” or “Stop”.
• Can participate in a group lesson for at least 5 minutes.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not communicate using single words, pictures or sign.
• Communicate fluently using back and forth conversation. Example: “My favourite colours are blue and purple. What about you?”
• Speak in full sentences. Example: “I don’t want to go to the park today because we were there last week.”
• Can ask “wh-” questions (who, what, where, when and why) independently.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Selecting 15-20 different items or pictures
• Learning to request missing items without being prompted
• Following two-step instructions
• Speaking 10 two-part requests like “Go fast,” or “Pour juice”
• Making 10 two-part observations about their environment like “Ball rolling,” or “Toy spinning”
• Requesting others’ attention by saying things like “Look at this,” or “Listen to me”

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use a communication system (e.g., vocal, sign language, PECS or other AAC system).
• Respond to their name.
• Can follow basic instructions.
• Are interested in toys and play.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Use less than 20 words.
• Are not speaking in short sentences of three words or more.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate.

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Greet an adult by waving or saying “hi” or “bye”
• Make requests and respond to peer requests
• Ask peers to stop an undesirable behaviour
• Demonstrate coping behaviour during challenging situations
• Request to join peers in play
• Ask a question or make a comment in conversations

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use sentences to ask and answer questions.
• Understand and follow 1-step instructions.
• Can recall and describe past events.
• Can participate in (up to) 20-minute group sessions without disruption.
• Can work independently in a group for 5 minutes.
• Experience worry, anger, or intense emotions that interfere with day-to-day activities.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not respond to individual or group instructions.
• Do not follow group routines.
• Have difficulty with language or communication.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate.

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Identifying emotions
• Identifying two personal values
• Identifying behaviours that are in line with values
• Describing what happens to your body when you are angry
• Learning ways to calm your body

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Speak in full sentences of five words or more. Example: “Let’s go to the park”.
• Ask and answers simple “wh-” questions (who, what, where, when and why) independently (e.g., what is your name?).
• Will independently initiate and return greets to peers (i.e., say “hi” and “bye”).
• Can sit, attend, and participate, in a group activity for 15 minutes or more.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Are not speaking in full sentences of five words or more. Example: “Let’s go to the park”. 
• Persistent refusal of any social interaction with peers. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Looking at person when starting and ending a conversation
• Describing the steps of introducing yourself
• Demonstrating the steps of initiating and responding to introductions
• Identifying non-verbal communication and corresponding emotions
• Identifying examples of teasing, bullying, rumours and gossip, and learn how to respond
• Identifying 3 good and 3 bad qualities of a friend

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Have emerging back and forth conversation skills.
• Can ask and answer questions and make comments.
• Can speak about things that interest them.
• Are interested in making friends and socializing with peers.
• Can sit and participate in a group lesson or activity for at least 15 minutes.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Require assistance to use full sentences.
• Often do not ask questions or do not provide answers when asked a question.
• Persistant refusal of social interaction with peers.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate.

Program Details and Goals 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Make comments throughout conversation
• Take turns acting as listener and observing appropriate cues
• Take turns speaking and following appropriate cues
• Learn to discuss a variety of topics
• Gauge when listener is bored, and when to change the topic

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Speak in complex sentences using adjectives, adverbs and past and present tense. Example: “I don’t want to go to the park today because we were there yesterday.”
• Can identify and describe feelings of their own and others.
• Can give examples of events that may evoke specific feelings.
• Should be able to regulate their emotions when needing to compromise or not getting their “way”.
• Have established back-and-forth conversation skills. Example: “My favourite colours are yellow and orange because they remind me of a sunset. What about you?”
• Can sit, attend, and participate in a group activity for 15 minutes or more.

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• If they speak in simple sentences without adjectives, adverbs, past and present tense, etc. or do not use rationalization Example: Question “Why do you want to go to the park?”, answer “Because.”
• Participate in conversations as primarily the “listener” or “speaker”. Example: They ask many questions without answering those asked or they answer questions without providing their own questions.
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate.

Program Details and Goals 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Learning to introduce themselves including identifying personal strengths or interests
• Asking others about their interests and adapting conversations according to their communication partner
• Identifying and demonstrating respect for a peer’s point of view
• Learning to accept and give compliments and feedback to others
• Working cooperatively to complete and present a project with peers

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who Should Register?

Your child meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can speak about things that interest them.
• Can play board games.
• Are interested in making friends and socializing with peers.
• Are able to sit and participate in a group lesson or activity for at least 15 minutes.
• Are at a typical classroom placement (working at grade level).

Who is Not a Fit? 

Your child may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Are not speaking in full sentences. 
• Do not show interest in making a friend. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals 

Caregiver Sessions 

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your child may target in this group include: 

• Joining a group that is already at play 
• Handling being turned down by others 
• Taking turns as a listener in conversations 
• Taking turns speaking in conversation (asking questions, waiting until the other person is finished) 
• Identifying 3 good and 3 bad qualities of a friend 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs. 

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can have back-and-forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Have a typical classroom placement (working at grade level). 
• Are interested in making friends, socializing with peers and may have one or more friends already. 
• Can sit for a 15 to 30 minute lesson.  

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Cannot have back and forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Are not interested in making friends or socializing. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your teen maintain their new skills.  

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Identifying steps to trade information in a two-way conversation. 
• Identifying rules for electronic communication (e.g. voicemail, text, IM, email, phone). 
• Identifying good times and places to make friends. 
• Learning how to tell if you are accepted or rejected from a friend group. 
• Identifying and dealing with teasing, bullying, rumours and gossip. 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can request 5 or more items using single words, pictures or sign. 
• Can be understood by a new person. 
• Respond to their name. 
• Use words in context and with intent. Example: Saying the word “fork” when sitting at the table or saying “dog” when they see a dog. 
• Can repeat single words at least 80% of the time. 
• Can follow simple instructions such as “Sit down”, “Come here” or “Stop”. 
• Can participate in a group lesson for at least 5 minutes. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not communicate using single words, pictures or sign. 
• Communicate fluently using back and forth conversation. Example: “My favourite colours are blue and purple. What about you?” 
• Speak in full sentences. Example: “I don’t want to go to the park today because we were there last week.” 
• Can ask “wh-” questions (who, what, where, when and why) independently. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your teen maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Selecting 15-20 different items or pictures 
• Learning to request missing items without being prompted 
• Following two-step instructions 
• Speaking 10 two-part requests like “Go fast,” or “Pour juice” 
• Making 10 two-part observations about their environment like “Ball rolling,” or “Toy spinning” 
• Requesting others’ attention by saying things like “Look at this,” or “Listen to me” 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Use sentences to ask and answer questions. 
• Understand and follow 1-step instructions. 
• Can recall and describe past events. 
• Can participate in (up to) 20-minute group sessions without disruption. 
• Can work independently in a group for 5 minutes. 
• Experience worry, anger, or intense emotions that interfere with day-to-day activities.  

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not respond to individual or group instructions. 
• Do not follow group routines. 
• Have difficulty with language or communication. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your child maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Identifying two or more personal values and three or more behaviours aligned with personal values. 
• Identifying personal worries, triggers or fears.
• Describing strategies to stay focused on values even when worried or upset.
• Describing one or more way that worry impacts the mind, emotions, body, actions and behaviours. 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Speak in full sentences of five words or more. Example: “Let’s go to the park”. 
• Ask and answers simple “wh-” questions (who, what, where, when and why) independently (e.g., what is your name?). 
• Will independently initiate and return greets to peers (i.e., say “hi” and “bye”). 
• Can sit, attend, and participate, in a group activity for 15 minutes or more. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Are not speaking in full sentences of five words or more. Example: “Let’s go to the park”. 
• Persistent refusal of any social interaction with peers. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Looking at person when starting and ending a conversation 
• Describing the steps of introducing yourself 
• Demonstrating the steps of initiating and responding to introductions 
• Identifying non-verbal communication and corresponding emotions 
• Identifying examples of teasing, bullying, rumours and gossip, and learn how to respond 
• Identifying 3 good and 3 bad qualities of a friend 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Have emerging back and forth conversation skills. 
• Can ask and answer questions and make comments. 
• Can speak about things that interest them. 
• Are interested in making friends and socializing with peers. 
• Can sit and participate in a group lesson or activity for at least 15 minutes. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Do not have emerging back and forth conversation skills. 
• Cannot ask and answer questions and make comments. 
• Are not interested in making friends and socializing with peers. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Make comments throughout conversation 
• Take turns acting as listener and observing appropriate cues 
• Take turns speaking and following appropriate cues 
• Learn to discuss a variety of topics 
• Gauge when listener is bored, and when to change the topic 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Speak in complex sentences using adjectives, adverbs and past and present tense. Example: “I don’t want to go to the park today because we were there yesterday.” 
• Can identify and describe feelings of their own and others. 
• Can give examples of events that may evoke specific feelings. 
• Should be able to regulate their emotions when needing to compromise or not getting their “way”. 
• Have established back-and-forth conversation skills. Example: “My favourite colours are yellow and orange because they remind me of a sunset. What about you?” 
• Can sit, attend, and participate in a group activity for 15 minutes or more. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• If they speak in simple sentences without adjectives, adverbs, past and present tense, etc. or do not use rationalization Example: Question “Why do you want to go to the park?”, answer “Because.” 
• Participate in conversations as primarily the “listener” or “speaker”. Example: They ask many questions without answering those asked or they answer questions without providing their own questions. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Learning to introduce themselves including identifying personal strengths or interests. 
• Asking others about their interests and adapting conversations according to their communication partner. 
• Identifying and demonstrating respect for a peer’s point of view. 
• Learning to accept and give compliments and feedback to others. 
• Working cooperatively to complete and present a project with peers. 

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can have back-and-forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Have a typical classroom placement (working at grade level). 
• Are interested in making friends, socializing with peers and may have one or more friends already. 
• Can sit for a 15 to 30 minute lesson. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Cannot have back and forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Are not interested in making friends or socializing. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Caregiver Sessions

This service includes educational sessions for caregivers to help you support your teen maintain their new skills. 

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• Identifying steps to trade information in a two-way conversation. 
• Identifying rules for electronic communication (e.g. voicemail, text, IM, email, phone). 
• Identifying good times and places to make friends.
• Learning how to tell if you are accepted or rejected from a friend group. 
• Identifying and dealing with teasing, bullying, rumours and gossip.

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.

Prerequisite Skills

Who should register?

Your teen meets the prerequisite skill requirements if they: 

• Can have back-and-forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Are able to read and write at a grade 5 level. 
• Are able to follow complex, multi-step instructions.  
• Can sit for a 15 to 30 minute lesson. 

Who is not a fit?

Your teen may NOT meet the prerequisite skills requirements if they: 

• Cannot have back and forth conversations, including asking and answering questions and making comments. 
• Have dangerous behaviours towards themselves, teachers or peers that result in cuts, bruises, emergency calls or hospital visits. For behaviours that prevent group participation, consider 1-to-1 FBI or Full Day ABA. For new or escalating, high-risk behaviour, Urgent Response Services may be appropriate. 

Program Details and Goals

Goals

The type of goals your teen may target in this group include:  

• 3 pieces of information to give when leaving a voicemail message. 
• Identifying 3 strengths or interests to discuss in an interview setting. 
• Identifying and using appropriate email etiquette.  
• Learning appropriate interview behaviour and demonstrating learned skills in a mock interview.

Schedule

Not finding what you’re looking for? Fill out this form to let us know. We create new groups every week to help meet your family’s needs.