Social Skills Groups

Children who have suffered from SM, but have overcome the speech phobia often as adolescents lack social skills and/or knowledge of how to initiate a conversation due to the years of mutism. Therefore, as they grow older, these children sometimes find it very difficult to join in school and social activities with their peers. Dr. Vera Joffe will discuss Social Skills Training. Her “Social Skills Group” is a series of group sessions for children who have difficulty with social skills, such as eye contact, sharing, talking turns speaking, controlling emotions, handling frustration, learning social cues from other people while relating to them, understanding semantics, pragmatics of language, etc. The group sessions are based on Dr. Tony Attwood's Social Skills training program. Each group session is structured and includes role-playing and projects.

Vera Joffe was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree and her License in Psychology in Brazil at the University of Sao Paulo. Then, she received her Master’s Degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and she completed her Ph.D. at Iowa State University. Dr. Joffe completed her Internship at the Child and Adolescent Guidance Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dr. Joffe has been working in South Florida for over 19 years in private practice. Her specialty is in the area of neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome, Asperger’s Syndrome, and Selective Mutism, among others. Dr. Joffe works cooperatively with parents, schools, physicians, and other professionals in the area of health.

Dr, Joffe’s website is www.verajoffe.com.

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