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12/10/2025

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PEERSⓇ for Adolescents
Social Skills Groups

Registration is now open for our next session
January-May 2026

Social skills development is one of the greatest areas of need among neurodiverse teens … and yet the most difficult to get right.

Most social skills therapy groups are run with good intentions
but without empirically validated methods.

PEERSⓇ is different.

PEERSⓇ for Adolescents is a highly structured social skills intervention designed for high school students who want to improve their ability to make and keep friendships.
The 14-week program includes training components for the teen and their parents or caregivers. Each week, 2 sessions are run simultaneously.

In one session, the teens work with our PEERSⓇ Certified Provider to learn new social skills through structured lessons and role play as well as real-world practice and experiences.
In the other session, parents or caregivers participate in their own structured session in which they learn how to support their teen in applying the targeted skills in their daily life.

The course is a transformative experience for the teens and their families.

Call or click the link in our bio to learn more and register - spots for the 2026 spring group are filling quickly!

12/04/2025

Spring 2026 High School Group registration is OPEN!!

PEERS is a highly structured social skills intervention focused on helping teens and their families navigate real-world situations and build skills in a warm, supportive, collaborative environment. Each week , teens and parents focus on skills including:

💭 conversations
💭 friendships
💭 handling rumors & gossip
💭 texting & group chats
💭 navigating disagreements

& more!

High school group registration is now open for the spring - we can’t wait for you to share in this remarkable experience!

Registration link 🔗 in our bio

11/29/2025

Our team had such an empowering and energizing time at the annual ASHA convention this month. It was a major debut for at the exhibition hall, and our Director Dr. Tighe presented her model for counseling caregivers about DLD.

If you missed us at ASHA, be sure to check out and catch webinars from .tighe and on Speechpathology.com

05/06/2025

This summer, we are offering a highly structured social skills intervention for high school and middle schoolers.

The program includes training for both teens and their parents/caregivers with our PEERS Certified providers.

The curriculum focuses on real-life social situations, including conversational skills, recognizing and choosing friends, solving disagreements, handling teasing and bullying, navigating rumors/gossip, planning and attending get togethers, and more!

REGISTRATION is now OPEN!

04/30/2025

Summer 2025 is right around the corner!

We have a fantastic lineup of summer programs with our expert speech-language pathologists that we can’t wait to share with you.

What can you expect?

☑️ teen groups
☑️ elementary groups
☑️ social skills
☑️ comprehension
☑️ conversation & play
☑️ a whole lotta FUN

Stay tuned!! 👀

04/01/2025

Our expert services at Beyond Communication go beyond speech (see what we did there)? Our Speech Language Pathologists are ready to help you meet your child’s articulation, language, auditory processing, and social communication goals.

Don’t forget, we are now in network providers with Aetna and Horizon BCBS!

03/28/2025

We are now offering speech-language therapy services in-network through insurance!

BC has always upheld the belief that high quality, expert services should be as accessible to as many people as possible. We’re so thrilled to now be in-network providers with Aetna and Horizon BCBS.

Our team offers speech and language interventions with the mostly highly qualified SLPs. We can’t wait to work with you!

11/18/2024

The BC team (not all pictured!) had a great time celebrating our friend and colleague Lauren for her surprise 40th!

11/13/2024

PEERS has entered the chat.

But…What is PEERS?

PEERS is an empirically validated (aka - widely researched and globally shown to work) social skills intervention for teens.

PEERS is different because it directly involves parents and caregivers and emphasizes REAL LIFE, up to date scenarios that our teens and adolescents face.

Our High school and middle school winter group registration is now open - 🔗 in bio!

11/12/2024

10/24/2024

Some children have difficulty making speech sounds correctly. This is referred to as a speech sound disorder. So what does the SLP do? ⬇️

An articulation disorder is when a child has difficulty physically producing a sound (having trouble making an /s/ or /r/ sound, for example). A speech-language pathologist will help a child move their lips, tongue, or other articulators to the right places in order to create the sound correctly.

A phonological disorder is a speech sound disorder that causes a child to have difficulty learning the sound system of our words. They might have trouble hearing/processing the difference between sounds and will produce them incorrectly.

In this case, an SLP would not only help the child make the correct sounds, but also help them to recognize the differences between the sounds that they are hearing and making. 🗣️

10/18/2024

October 18 is recognized as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day.

DLD is a common, but sometimes hidden, disability that affects communication in daily life.

Join us in raising awareness of DLD by amplifying the voices of DLD! We’ve tagged some of our favorite DLD pages & resources for you below 👇🏽
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