Individuals who participate in our programs often have a range of diagnoses including:

• ADHD or Asperger's Syndrome
• Social Anxiety Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Mild to Moderate Depression
• Learning Disabilities
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Social Shyness, Selective Mutism
• Semantic-Pragmatic and Nonverbal Learning Disorders

Some students do not have a formalized diagnosis, but rather, have traits of shyness, difficulty making or keeping friends, paying attention, trouble maintaining conversations, or difficulty controlling anger or other impulses.

Experience has indicated that students come in many sizes, shapes, and types of problems. By accepting a broad range of students, we ensure that some children's weaknesses are likely to be areas that appear as a strength for a peer. This allows for modeling and behavioral rehearsal opportunities.

We typically do not accept students with the following behaviors (although exceptions have been made in the past):

• Mental retardation,
• Classical autism (except for very High-Functioning Autism)
• Violence at school during the past year, (Does not include oppositional behavior or fighting with siblings)
• Active psychosis within the past two years
• Substance abuse within the past two years.

If your child has any of these problems or diagnoses, call us anyway. We will try to help you find another group for your child or teen.

For more information about signing up your child, send us an email or call at 818-788-2100 x2.
Also, you can visit our main site at www.lunchgroups.com