Many children and adults who have difficulty with social interactions and developing and maintaining friendships can benefit from social learning training. Some of these individuals may have a diagnosis such as autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, non-verbal learning disorder, pragmatic language disorder, and/or ADHD, to name a few. There are other individuals with social-emotional challenges who do not have a “label” or diagnosis. These individuals can also benefit from social learning training.
Yes! ‘The Social Express’ is a tool designed to be used as a complement to other social learning materials.
The development of ‘The Social Express’ was influenced by the work of many amazing professionals in the field of social and emotional learning.
We believe that anyone who has difficulty understanding social cues, can not manage their emotions and needs help with emotional intelligence will benefit from using The Social Express program.
Yes! The Social Express helps all children to improve their social and emotional intelligence.Specifically, it helps them improve social relationships, reading verbal and non-verbal social cues, makes having conversations easier and increased problem-solving in social situations. Your child can definitely benefit from using the software.
Because we live in a social world, a child needs to be able to figure out what to say or do in a wide variety of environments and/or situations. The concepts featured in ‘The Social Express’ can help generalize and reinforce these critical abilities in the real world.
‘The Social Express’ presents key components that are needed in order to be successful in social situations. These components include how to be with a group, using your eyes to figure out what to say or do, identifying feelings and coping strategies to calm down and using figurative language in conversation.
Becoming socially competent requires individuals to know how to read a situation and figure out what to say or do. It is difficult in school or home settings to replicate the same situation with two different outcomes for the child to observe. However, ‘The Social Express’ provides the user with an opportunity to view both positive and negative outcomes and to learn how these outcomes impact others.
Video modeling is a method of teaching that uses videos to provide a visual model of targeted behaviors or skills. Evidence-based research suggests that video modeling can be effectively implemented with children from early childhood through middle school. This practice may prove useful with high school-aged learners as well, although no studies have been identified that support the use of video modeling at this age level.
