Check out our new social skills group for 3rd - 5th graders and their parents.   Click here to Apply!

Now Taking Applications for February 2012 Group!

We are currently enrolling for a new group of social skills classes at Mardan School. Families with children in the 3rd-5th grades are encouraged to apply! (participants do not have to be affiliated with Mardan School)

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Making new friends can be challenging.

ASK wants to help YOU and your CHILD gain the key to a successful school year!! Let us teach you the tools of developing quality friendships for your child.

Apply for the new group of CFT program for children age 6-12!!!  Group meets on Tuesday nights starting January 2012.

This can be the year your child learns the social skills needed to establish and maintain friendships! Space is limited, apply today for a great new year!

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Have you notice that your child is struggling to make and maintain friendships?  Is your child being subjected to bulling often? If you do not know exactly how to handle these stressful task, no worries… your not alone!

ASK wants to help you and your child gain social success! ASK is offering a Social Skills training program based on Children’s Friendship Training for children between the ages 6-12. New groups starts Jan 2012. Click here to register

ASK introduces Social Skills Group for age 6-12 to meet weekly from 9/27– 12/20. This unique program includes a child session to learn effective friendship skills and a parent session to receive parent education. Call 949-221-0126 for more information or apply online.

Kenny was the kid other kids loved to hate. The nine-year-old taunted, tattled, threw punches — whatever it took to get what he wanted. Yet deep down, what Kenny (not his real name) really wanted was friends, and he didn’t have a clue about how to make them. But that was before he met “Dr. Bob” — psychologist Robert Myatt of UCLA’s Children’s Friendship Program — and learned the ABCs of social skills with a group of similarly friend-challenged kids.  Read more…

Kimberly Orliczky, MA, BCBA, a certified social skills trainer, presents social skills group in fall 2011.  Ms. Orliczky’s training and experience include ABA intervention, behavior management and assessment, social skills training, parent effective training, UCLA Children’s Friendship Training for elementary school children, and PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) for middle and high school students. 

Currently, she is leading social skills groups for all ages at ASK in Irvine.  Check out the newes group for fall, meeting on Tuesdays 9/27-12/20!

Based on Children ‘s Friendship Training, this successful 12-week evidence-based program is designed for parents and children in elementary school (1st grade—6th grade) who have difficulty making and/or keeping friends.

During each group session, children learn a new skill, practice with group members, receive coaching on their play skills and are given a homework assignment in which they try out their newly learned skill: 

·  Conversational skills

·  How to make a good first impression

·  How to find common interests

·  How to join a group of kids at play

·  How to handle rejection, teasing and bullying

·  How to be a good host on a play date

·  How to be a good winner

·  How to be a good sport

·  How to show respect to adult supervisors

·  How to take perspectives

·  How to follow “theory of mind”

Parents attend a concurrent class and will learn how to help their children to make and keep friends by using the skills taught in the program.

 For more information, contact ASK Office at 949-221-0126 or visit the website.