peers® fOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS
Evidence-Based Social Skills Course for Teens & Young Adults
PREMIUM COURSE: PEERS® FOR TEENS& young adults
Social Skills Course For Teens & Young Adults
(Helping With Autism, Anxiety & General Social Skills Growth)
Age-appropriate groups for 13-17yo & 18-25yo
Peers For Teens & Young Adults is the world's foremost evidence-based course for teens with Autism. It is a fun, high-impact, 4-month skills upgrade for your child.
Peers For Teens equips teens with a new range of skills for interacting with others. Your child will learn new skills to help support them through life's different social & emotional challenges.
What do students learn in ‘PEERS® for Teens & Young Adults’?
- Learn how to develop and maintain friendships and romantic relationships, handle peer conflicts and rejection from peers.
- A toolkit of social skills that work in the real world and that are used by socially successful adults.
- Learn to tap into sources of potential friends and/or romantic partners with assistance from parents and other close role models.
- Create opportunities to learn social skills and to try them out in a safe and fun environment.
- Develop more independence in social relationships for the real world.
TEENS/young adult Training
14 Sessions
90 minutes per session
(Mini-groups - 3 or 4 children with a Leader, on Zoom)
Children love it!
Parent/mentor Training
7 Sessions
60 minutes per session
(With an experienced leader, on Zoom)
Parents & Mentors love it!
NO WAITING LISTS.
You hate waiting lists and so do we!
Your teen/young adult needs to learn asap.
We have many, many groups and we would rather add more groups than have a waiting list.
Every week your child is not learning new skills is a wasted week.
We'll do everything we can so your child can start in our next course.
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AFTER SCHOOL SESSIONS
Don't miss out on school.
Your child doesn't have to miss out on school and you don't have to deal with midday appointments.
Instead, all sessions are at after-school times in the afternoons or evenings because your child needs routine.
We can help that just by scheduling sessions conveniently for you.
Secret Agent Society
Peers® For Teens & Young Adults Gets Results
Peers is a proven learning program successfully used worldwide to help children with ASD, anxiety or any social skills development needs gain skills and confidence. It teaches students how to make friends and keep them. It gives your child the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and gives them abundant opportunities to practice those new skills.
Next Start Dates:
Sept Groups: Week beginning Mon/Tue/Wednes/Thur 12-13-14-15 Sept - Weekly
Feb 2023 Groups: Week beginning Tues/Wednes/Thur 30Jan/31Jan/1Feb/2Feb - Weekly
Note that your teen's sessions could be on any day that suits your family - You choose one session/week.
(These are the options for "Session 1" dates for the next courses).
Session times are AFTER SCHOOL or AFTER WORK times on weekdays.
Also, we give your family a CHOICE of times, because we have families of our own and we understand. :)
We Give You Real Feedback
"Thanks for such lovely feedback. I'm sure I'm not the only parent who feels this way....after 14 years of people pointing out what is wrong with our son, and him being too difficult, too much, too whatever to be included, this is such and lovely change!"
-Jasmine, Mum of 14 yo son near Melbourne.
Peers for teens Curriculum
Peers® Course Content
- Session 1: How to start conversations that feels natural and how to exchange information in social settings.
- Session 2: Ways to keep conversations flowing more easily and balanced ways of exchanging information.
- Session 3: Finding reliable sources of quality friends
- Session 4: Electronic communication – Do’s and don'ts
- Session 5: Appropriate use of humour – Depending on content, timing, & strength of relationships.
- Session 6: Entering group conversations and playing your role within the group.
- Session 7: Exiting conversations – When, how and why to leave conversations gracefully.
- Session 8: Get-Togethers - How to plan for social events & steps for enjoying social times.
- Session 9: 2 ELECTIVES: (a) Sportsmanship Skills OR (b) Pre-dating etiquette: How to talk & interact confidently with both guys & girls
- Session 10: 2 ELECTIVES: (a) Games Winning & Losing OR (b) Simple Pre-dating etiquette: Basic dating do’s and don'ts
- Session 11: Handling disagreements
- Session 12: Handling direct bullying
- session 13: Handling indirect bullying
- Session 14: How to be confident in the real world - Skills for thriving in life - friendships, workplaces, families etc
The Peers® Curriculum Also Covers:
- Use appropriate conversational skills
- Use humour appropriately/effectively
- Use electronic communication
- Enter and exit conversations appropriately
- Be a good host during get togethers
- Show good 'sportsmanship'
- Handle arguments and disagreements
- Change a bad reputation
- Understand the basics of dating etiquette
- Handle rumours and gossip
- Handle rejection, teasing & bullying
NDIS Funding Options
Self-Managed Families & Plan-Managed Families
NDIS funding may be used if the family are self-managed or plan-managed.
Please note that for some participants with plan-managed NDIS there may potentially be an out-of-pocket expense for the family for some types of plans.
Which Funding Categories?
Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation. It is helpful to know that other families have told us they use these categories:
a) Community Participation Activities
b) Improved daily living
Total Program Cost: $2950
This program was first developed by Dr Elizabeth Laugeson at the University of California (UCLA) PEERS®.
It gets results. the program has a strong evidence-base for use with adolescents with Autism, and we know of no other programs that have the same level of quality research behind them and the same level of evidence-based results over the long term.
That's why we do this program.
Want To Meet The Researcher Who Created The PEERS course? Watch this....
Evidence-Based Success For Teens With Autism Or Social Needs
Peers® for Teens is recognised world-wide as one of the most successful evidence-based programs of its kind in the world and has helped thousands of children over the last 10 years.
The research behind this course is immense and extremely positive. It is one of the most widely-recognised and approved courses for teens with Autism and more.
PEERS support FOR TEENS & Young adults
Learning Is Outrageously Fun
Content is taught in a way that is practical, well-sequenced, and at times, outrageously fun! New skills are practised with others using a variety of technology. What makes this course so special is that the secret agent theme helps your child take on the role of a detective to look for clues in how others speak and communicate.
Then, as secret agents, we use those clues to determine what others are trying to tell us and what they may be thinking. For example, your child can learn to use their ‘Detective’ skills to listen to the volume, speed and pitch of people’s voices during conversations. Then your child can interpret these clues to detect how the other person is feeling.
THE Process WORKS
Social & Life Skills Taught in an ASD-Friendly Way (Yay!)
Each session, your child learns a new social skill, broken down into simple steps.
Your child experiences new skills in a fun way
Your child practises new skills in a supported environment
Your child plays fun games to discover effective ways to apply their new skills
We help your child to try out these skills at home and at school for themselves
We collaborate with parents and teachers to create opportunities for the new skills to be used
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