Children learning game of friendship
Classes on social skills help outcasts flourish
by Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writer ~ Sunday, April 14, 2002

“Some psychologists believe that more and more kids are lacking social skills because the neighborhood gang that allowed for anybody on the street to play on almost any day has been all but erased by the overscheduled child, who spends most afternoons in day care or an after-school music class or on a sports team.

For the most part, children who enroll in a social skills group are social outcasts, both in the classroom and on the playground.” Read more - San Francisco Chronicle

Reluctant Loners
By HARRIET BAROVICK Monday, Aug. 25, 2003

Being left out can be tough. But peer-therapy groups are showing socially awkward youngsters how to fit in . . . Read more - TIME magazine