What is Social Cognitive Communication?

Social learning is complex, slow, and deep.  Social Cognitive Communication involves simultaneous processes, including:  attending to one's environment and those in it, interpreting contextual features and others' perspectives, generating responses, and identifying the success of the interaction to determine future action.  

Underlying these processes are the ability to regulate, access theory of mind, engage in gestalt (big picture) processing, and utilize executive functions. In order to engage in dynamic social interactions, we must develop these preliminary skills in order to access higher level social communication skills of  conversation, self-advocacy, initiation, humor and nonliteral language, social problem-solving, friendship, and nonverbal communication skills.

Our goal is not to address discrete and rote social skills, but to target the underlying processes in order to provide deep learning.  Social learning is client led and neurodiversity affirming, focusing on skills that are important to our clients to find social, academic, and occupational success and meet their long term goals.