​Groups are beneficial for children who have:

  • Social Anxiety
  • ADHD
  • Poor Communication Skills
  • Difficulty asserting themselves
  • Autism Spectrum Dis​order
  • Poor social engagement




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Rockland and Bergen counties!!!


 

Program Structure

  • Up to 6 students per session
  •  Low student-to-counselor ratio
  • Sessions run for 50 minutes with additional 10 minutes utilized for parent feedback
  • Parents are given handouts, homework and other activities to promote generalization of social tools in variety of social settings.

Which Group is right for you?


Incredible Flexible You (K-1st grade)
A Social Thinking educational series that combines a social learning framework through music and dramatic play activities that will appeal to early learners.  Creative lesson plans and structured activities will promote social thinking abilities and develop better social skills. 


Social Detective (K-1st grade)

Students benefit from lessons that offer different ways of introducing the concepts of social thinking through social vocabulary that can be used in just in different social settings. ​


Miss Social Detective (K-2nd grade)

Girls benefit from lessons that introduce the concepts of social thinking through social vocabulary that can be used in just about every environment, by everyone in the process of discovering social thinking.

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Superflex Academy (2nd-5th grade)

Students learn how each of them have Superflexible capacities in their brains that can take on this Team of Un-thinkables (Rock Brain, Topic Twister Meister, Mean Jean and Glassman to name a few), each embodied in a cartoon character as a different behavior and challenge, accompanied by specific strategies.


Superflex Academy (3rd-5th grade)
Students learn to further apply social strategies in socially appropriate settings. 


ADDITIONAL GROUPS WILL BE ADDED AND CURRENT GROUPS WILL BE RESTRUCTURED TO MEET THE CHILDREN'S NEEDS.



Benim Social Academy (BSA) offers a wide variety of weekly social skills training for children ages 4-11 within close proximity to Rockland and Bergen Counties.  Weekly session introduce children to social vocabulary and reinforce socially appropriate behaviors through variety of Cognitive-Behavioral strategies (CBT).


BSA groups follow a Structured Teaching Model where curriculum lessons are first presented and then further reinforced through demonstration, practice, reward, and review. Sessions include role-play, games, drawing, discussion and sharing.


Small student-to-counselor ratio, promote the practice of such skills as initiating and maintaining a conversation, negotiating winning and losing and increasing attention during structured and unstructured activities.​


Younger students (ages 4-6) learn through play and activity based learning. Groups focus on whole body listening, noticing and interpreting other people’s actions, being in a group, working together, and improving play skills. Preschoolers practice identifying feelings and thoughts in themselves and others. These are all necessary skills for attending school and establishing peer relationships.

From early elementary and older, the groups cover topics such as: conversing with peers, adults, teachers, understanding indirect language, noticing expected and unexpected behaviors, identifying context clues to interpret how people are feeling and what they might be thinking, identifying the gravity of a problem and the size of a reaction, differentiating between an emotional and a technical response. 

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​Weekly Social Skills Group 

Frequently Asked Questions


1.  What is the training of the facilitator?

The groups are lead by a doctoral level psychologist or a master's level school psychologist or a special education teacher.


2. Do you accept insurance?

Insurance is not accepted.  However a receipt is give with group codes and it's the responsibility of the parents to submit to their insurance for possible reimbursement.


3. How much is each session?

The fee is $50 per session.  A commitment to the 10-week sessions is needed to secure a spot.  Each group has no more than 6 kids so spaces is limited and commitment to the term in required.


4. Are the kids grouped by age?

Each child's offered a trial session and the appropriate group is recommended based on age, cognitive, social and developmental abilities.


5. Do you review child's IEP's?

Yes.  Parents are encouraged to provide the director with IEP's and other relevant documentations.  


6.  Do the student's stop after the 10 sessions?

No. Most students continue enrollment as sessions build upon past lessons and curriculum is changes and adapted for each group.


​7.  Where do the groups meet?

The Thursday groups are hosted at St. Augustine's School, located at 114 S. Main Street, New City, New York.​


8.  How do I register?


Click on the link below and fill out the registration form.