Are you worried about your teen or young adult’s lack of friends??
Are you tired of the Special Needs “social skills” ghetto??
Are you worried about bullying at your child’s school??
Hello and welcome to Social Skills Success, a data-proven and fun method to help special needs teens, young adults and pre-teens. I help your child learn Social Skills, make friends, and mainstream into wonderful and joyful settings with peers!
Re-discover the beauty of your teen!
The secret to mainstreaming is simple: Get out of the special needs ghetto, and find peer groups where your teen’s strengths can shine! I have ten years experience helping kids, teens and young adults do just that: carefully finding friendship networks where your child grows and blooms. I CAN do it for your child, too!
I also help you! I help parents find the joy of having our special kids, and I identify and support your family’s strengths that you may have forgotten. I offer individualized coaching packages, so your young person achieves Success quickly, and you know what you are paying for!
I come to your home in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area, or I skype/phone to you if you are beyond SW Pennsylvania!
(And explore fun Free Stuff right here on this site!)
I am Claudia Neely, and I have over 10 years experience working with teens diagnosed with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s and HFA, Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. I have helped young people learn to make eye contact and initiate conversations, mainstream into social groups with their peers or apply successfully to colleges and graduate programs, and I have shown families with special needs teens how to find their own strength and joy while rearing these amazing kids.
I am also the mother of two children with Autism Spectrum disorders, one daughter with Asperger’s and a son with autism. I know what it is like to worry about my child, to see my pre-teen’s loneliness, to hurt when my teen feels different. I have lived through what you are experiencing!
“Claudia is my hero. I could never say enough about how she is knowledgeable and experienced concerning her work with children and families with special needs.” – Shawn Sturdivant, mother of 11 year old diagnosed with autism.
This is where my packaged coaching comes in. Whether I teach you or your young person an 8 week stress transformation program, or whether I teach beginning or advanced social skills, I find ways to help your teen or pre-teen or young adult mainstream in meaningful ways – with strength, joy and friendships! I still individualize every coaching package for you! Sure, empirically proven interventions like Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction are common programs, but I work to ensure a program fits you, your family, and your teen or young adult.
Please check out this site if you are the parent of a young adult, teen or pre-teen who is struggling with stress and anxiety, feeling overwhelmed about social skills with peers or teachers, or feeling lonely and despairing about ever have friends. I offer multiple packages to help your family, from completely individualized family coaching programs (find your family’s strength!) to 8 week anxiety and stress transformation courses, to beginning, intermediate and advanced social skills programs. My packages mean you get what you pay for, without signing up for interminable and never-ending coaching!
Because that is the goal – ultimately whether a pre-teen, teen or young adult, being and sharing with others is a gift our children deserve! Friendships, mentors, teachers, these are the relationships that create lifelong happiness.
Check out my packages, just click on the package page above.
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A dreadlocked mom of two autistic teens to the rescue!
I think social skills are one of THE most important skills that a “special needs” person needs to develop. Heck all of us really, but the lack of these skills can really hold back a “challenged” person.
Thank you Carolina HeartStrings! (I urge everyone to check out your awesome blog!) My father in law is on the spectrum, and his issues not only hold him back, but prevent him from connecting to his grandchildren. Sad. I want my children to have more choices.