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What is group therapy ?
Group therapy is mainly focused on teaching social and communication skills in children with autism. These groups are small groups consisting of 2or more kids, who will be directed by a trained therapist. We have to group the children according to there age, linguistic skill and social- emotions aspects.
How Group Therapy Helps Children With ASD
- Improve their social participation.
- Increase participation in recreational activities
- This encourages children to communicate well.
- Develop their empathy, helping and sharing skills
- Help to reduce behavioural deviations to an extent
- Help them to interpret nonverbal and verbal communication cues.
- In a social group, children learn how to behave in a social situation.
- They can learn about the importance of friendship and companionship
- Help in the reduction of anxiety symptoms and depression to an extent
- Prepare them to follow the rules and thus help them to enroll in a social system
- The development of social skills can help them to be successful in academic and vocational settings
- Group therapy help children to follow the rules of a game and develop their cooperative play skills
- Learning of social rules such as greeting others, understanding humour and understanding emotions of others.
Each group therapy has a scheduled outline which includes activities depending on the topic to be taught.