The

Live Oak

Center

For Communication Disorders

Social Pragmatic Program

Our Social/Pragmatic Program is designed especially to help children and young adults with social-cognitive deficits including those with diagnoses of High Functioning Autism(HFA), Asperger’s Syndrome(AS), ADHD, Pervasive-Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified(PDD-NOS) , Nonverbal Learning Disorder or other social communication disorders. Techniques integrated into the program are from a variety of experts in the field including: Michelle Garcia Winner, Tony Atwood, Steven Gutstein, Carol Gray and others. To improve social interactions, specific areas addressed may be the following:

- social referencing
- perspective taking
- understanding nonverbal cues/facial expressions
- spatial awareness
- conversational turn-taking