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Disability Specific: Autism
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New Jersey
Social Skills Training Project
is a fee for service company that utilizes a primarily cognitive-behavioral approach to teach social skills to children, adolescents, and adults who have social-communication difficulties. These difficulties may include autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders, and other psychiatric conditions or learning disabilities that may be associated with social difficulties. Their goals are to provide relevant social skill instruction that will generalize into daily routines, to make socializing fun so that students want to socialize and to help "typical" peers and professionals become more understanding, accepting, and engaging of those with social difficulties. For more information on the locations of their clinics, visit their website above or send mail to Jed Baker, Ph.D.,
29 Collinwood Road,
Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 or send e-mail to: jandbbaker@aol.com.
New York
Spectrum Social Skills Solutions, Inc is a fee based service company that is committed to better the quality of life for individuals with social skills deficits. They offer interpersonal and social skills seminars for children ages 6-18 as well as young adults. These seminars may help those who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, PDD, ADD, anxiety / depression, difficulty with assertion, bullying, self confidence, engaging in conversation, or lack of friends. Spectrum Social Skills Solutions Inc. does offer a free parent support group. For more information, contact Spectrum Social Skills Solutions, Inc.,
38 Winthrop Place, Staten Island, New York 10314, Phone: (347) 944-5900 or send Email to: help@spectrumsocialskills.com
North Carolina
TEACCH Web Site: Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children is located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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