All children deserve to have friends. Friendships are an important part of life and a key to happiness. While most children are born with the ability to learn the necessary social skills to make friends without any extra help, some are not. For them social relationships are a mystery that they just don't seem to get.

It is important to realize that it is not a reflection of their intelligence. Many children who have trouble socially are incredibly intelligent. Some even have a gifted use of language. The thing they don't have is the ability to learn the necessary skills for navigating the social world without some extra help from the right kind of expert.

Fortunately help is available.We have been successfully helping children develop their social skills since 2006. We are one of the longest running, and the best known social skills program in Westchester County because of our success in helping kids like yours attain the necessary social skills to develop new friendships and live a more enriched life.

We Do This by Teaching
Your Child These Essential Social Skills

• How to express himself (or herself) more effectively and in more ways: Children who have trouble socially often have trouble effectively expressing themselves. Some get frustrated and act out while others withdraw and isolate themselves. Unfortunately this often leads those who don't understand them to mislabel them as a behavior problem. When your child discovers how to express himself more effectively not only will it make it easier for him to connect with other children, it will also improve his behavior and how others view him.
• How to read and use body language: Most children who have trouble socially have difficulty using and understanding body language. Unfortunately, research shows that between 60 and 70 percent of all human communication is through body language. That means body language is a key tool that allows us to identify and express emotions. It is also why it is important that we help your child develop the ability to read and use body language.
• How to have self confidence and a sense of self: It is hard to make friends or stick up for yourself if you don't think you can. Part of our program's success is teaching children "that they can". This is instrumental in them taking their newly learned social skills from our program and out into their everyday lives.

The best way to teach children is to engage them in a fun and exciting way that they can relate to. This leads to the fastest and most enduring changes. It makes sense if you think about it. Everyone has difficulty learning when they are bored or forced to do things they don't like. This is even truer when it comes to children. They don't have the experience or the ambition that we have as adults to get through arduous tasks. They need to have fun in order to learn.

That is why we use different types of art and play to teach social skills. We want to make sure that your child has fun while discovering the skills to make his everyday life better. It is no wonder why parents tell us time and again how much their child looks forward to coming to class. Whether it is one of our art and play groups, or one of our Lego® groups, you can count on your child loving being a part of the Where I Can Be Me® social skills program. I guarantee it.

Three Other Unique Benefits
You Can Count On

1. You have a risk free, "The Right Decision", money back guarantee: That means if any time before the start of your 5th class you decide you are not absolutely thrilled, for any reason, we will give you all of your money back. It is that simple. That means you have over a month to try the classes without any risk or worry. That way you can sit back, relax and be confident that you have made the right decision for your child.
2. Small classes that are led by board certified experts in social communication: You can expect there to be no more than 6 children per class, sometimes less. This ensures that your child will get plenty of help and not get lost. We also have individual therapy just in case you would like a little extra special help for your child.
3. Your child will be placed based on his or her ability: Too many social skills programs use age, gender or disorder as their basis for placement. While those things can be used as guides, your child's ability and needs are the most important criteria for placement. You do not have to worry about your child being too advanced or not advanced enough when you join our program. We build our classes around the children so that in each class every child has a model and is a model. That is a key to our Facilitated Peer Modeling™ structure, and to our success.

More than just a place to learn to make friends, the Where I Can Be Me® social skills program is a place where children AND their parents go to make friends. While other programs discourage their clients from becoming too friendly, we encourage our members to do so. Our members come early, stay late and even go to each other's events such as birthday parties. We think it is a great thing and believe you will to.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of then I encourage you to request more information by using one of the four methods listed below.

Simply pick the method that works best for you.

• call 914.488.5282 and request a complementary 15 minute phone consultation (leave a message if you miss us and my assistant will call you back within 48hrs to schedule a time for us to talk.)
• fax your name and address to 914.488.5283 and I'll mail you the information
• call my toll-free, hassle-free, 24hr recorded message information hotline at 866.380.8340 and I'll mail you the information
• fill out the quick request form to the upper right and I'll mail you the information

Dedicated to Helping Your Child,

Isa Marrs, MA CCC-SLP
Executive Director
Where I Can Be Me® Social Skills with Art and Play