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  • Summer 2008 workshops NOW ENROLLING!
    Pre-registration is required. Please contact Karen Roe via email or phone.
  • Teleclasses are now enrolling for Winter! If distance is a problem, you might want to try Gift of Gab™ via telephone. Teleclasses are similar to conference calls, where several people can call in at the same time. It's easy! Just call in to Gift of Gab™ meetings from the comfort of your own home!
  • DVR and DDD funding is now available for those who qualify!
    Do you...
  • get lost in a conversation and miss things that were said, or have difficulty understanding them?
  • often listen to conversations that you didn't want to but didn't know how to politely change the subject or end the conversation?
  • panic before you can discuss your side of the conflict?
  • have too much to say and can't seem to get it all said?
  • have lots to say but its hard to know what's the best time to say it?
  • have troubles stopping talking?
    Perhaps you would like practice in...
  • smooth ways to interrupt
  • stating things clearly
  • advanced listening techniques
  • persuasion
  • how to recover when you have made a blunder
  • giving instructions
  • saying "No"
  • formal employment interviews
  • heading off bullying
Asperger Syndrome/Autism Spectrum: Gift of Gab Conversation Skills Groups

Small weekly groups of 4 to 6 people learn specific conversation skills and have fun discussions. Teen, young adult, adult, and women's groups available and several special focus groups. Call for dates and locations. Fee based.

Special one-time-only workshop offerings

Techies Group
Whether your area is software, engineering, science, math, inventing, or another technical field, this is your opportunity to share ideas with others of like mind. Even if you've put away a talent that you didnŐt think you had, here's your chance.

Art and comics
Let's do a project together-Asperger style!

Drama/Improv
Are you ready to set your feet on a stage? Maybe even a little improv. 7/10-7/31

Entrepreneurship for Aspies: Self Employment Nuts 'n Bolts
Want to start a business but don't know where to start? Learn the basics, discover your hidden strengths, and gain confidence and a sense of freedom in work. Let's put your conversation skills to work!

Relationships, Flirting, and Advanced Empathy
Hidden meanings, subtle nonverbal language, and relationship dynamics. For those ready to go a step deeper and move ahead.

Aviation Group
This group is for aspies who love aviation, whether it's how aerodynamics works, history, trivia, piloting, or whatever. Let's get together and share ideas, brainstorm, and just have fun discussing aviation, and maybe even do a project.

Employment Conversations I
Interviews, Job Search, Self Promotion.

Employment Conversations: Bullying in the workplace
Survival in employment when others try to taunt you, cheat you, or compete unfairly.

Video Games Discussion
Chat about the games and maybe even design one! Thursday evenings 4/3-4/24.

Regular Gift of Gab Groups

Adult Group
Enhance your conversation skills, and learn new ones while developing new friendships in a calm, safe, setting. Intensive structured lessons. Monday evenings.

Teen Girls
Make friends, chitchat, learn social graces, and have fun. Mondays.

Teen Groups
Use your imagination and logic to enhance your conversation skills while developing new friendships in an active, relaxing setting. Tuesdays.

Just for AS Women
Group I, Teens (Two age groups.) Adults, Group II. Small weekly groups of 4 to 6 women discuss AS issues unique to women, and learn specific conversation skills and have fun discussions. Mondays/Tuesdays.

Kids
Socializing together, active gameplay, and brainstorming with shared imagination. Groups for kids ages 7-9 and 10-12.

We'll work on these skills and more. Please, check our workshop schedule