Social Communication

Every school day is filled with invisible social demands such as reading a classmate's expression, knowing when to speak and when to listen, understanding what someone meant rather than only what they said. For students with language-based learning differences, this constant navigation is often far harder than it looks, and when it goes unsupported, the cost is real: missed friendships, misread situations, and a growing sense of not quite fitting in. At Prentice, we treat social communication as exactly what it is: a learnable set of skills that responds to explicit, expert instruction. Our onsite Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) teach Social Communication as a dedicated weekly class, using evidence-based frameworks.

Classroom teachers, SLPs, and our onsite Marriage & Family Therapist use a shared language across the entire school day, so when a student is struggling with perspective-taking during a group project, their teacher can name what is happening and support the skill in real time.