Social skills classes at Nurture Pods are designed in accordance to the evidence-based methodologies of Social Thinking® and Secret Agent Society.
We believe social competencies will develop when the underlying social cognitions and communication abilities are addressed. Hence in every class, social cognitions and language skills will be regularly practiced as we introduce a variety of weekly social skills themes.
In order to better target individual needs, the children are grouped into different classes based on their abilities and needs. At Nurture Pods, we have different programmes that caters to children of the different levels.
Spanning 12 weekly lessons
Small group settings
Weekly parent debrief
Video feedback
Sharing of resources
founder of Social Thinking ®
Based on the Social Thinking Methodology, Nurture Pods is proud to present the Social Language Club and the Social Thinking Club.
The Social Language Club has a deeper focus on improving child’s social attention, initiation, non-verbal communication skills and spoken language skills. Whereas the Social Thinking Club works on the advance skills of Social Thinking such as understanding of intricate social cues, behaviour mapping and problem solving.
Maximum 6 students in a class to 1 trainer and 2 therapist aids.
Every Saturday, morning or afternoon classes.
1 hour group learning
Nurture Pods is proud to be among the first here in Singapore to offer the renowned Secret Agent Society Programme – a revolutionary social skills programme for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This is a breakthrough programme designed to improve the emotional understanding and social skills of children in a fun and engaging group setting.
This programme is catered specially for children of ages 3 to 12 years old. It is especially beneficial to children who demonstrates fundamental skill deficits such as:
At the end of the programme, you child is expected to gain the following:
Fundamental Cognitive Skills:
Social Skills:
The Secret Agent Society (SAS) Programme is a multi-component social skills intervention designed to improve the emotional understanding and social skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and other behavioural disorders.
The program is developed by Dr Renae Beaumont (PHD) who is an honourary research fellow at the Parenting and Support Centre, The University of Queensland. Dr Renae has over 10 years of clinical and research experience working with children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. The SAS Program has gone through effectiveness studies and is rapidly gaining international recognition.
In order to ensure the efficacy of the programme in local context, the program has been fine-tuned accordingly. The program will be managed by Mr Alex Liau (Clinical Director) and Ms Michelle Poh (Social Skills Training Consultant) who are both certified deliverer of programs under the Social Skills Training Institute.
* Mr. Alex Liau and Ms. Michelle Poh are the first certified practitioners to run this program in Singapore.
The SAS Programme is different from other social skills programmes in the market because it addresses fundamental skill deficits which in turn result in social inadequacies. These fundamental skills include reading of emotions, detecting of verbal and non-verbal cues, inferring from situations, deductive reasoning, verbal comprehension, appropriate communication and much more.
To ensure that skills picked up in the sessions will be generalised, we are also providing session updates and ‘homework’ for parents to work on:
Maximum 6 students in a class to 1 trainer and 2 therapist aids.
Every Saturday, morning or afternoon classes.
1 hour group learning
“The trainers in Nurture Pods show concerns to the kids’ development and are always happy to answer to parents’ queries. The debrief session after each lesson and the video clips taken during lesson time gave the parents a good grasp of the skills being taught and also provided good tips for the parents to follow up with the kids.