About Echidnas

About Echidnas

Echidnas is a Social Skills Group for Middle & High School Students with Asperger's Syndrome AND Parent Support Network

BREAKING NEWS!!! A new group is now forming in Fort Worth, Texas. If you are interested in learning about this new group, please email our Fort Worth Contact.

MORE BREAKING NEWS!! Echidnas Young Adults will launch in Fall, 2008 and is geared to high school seniors through young adulthood. If you are interested in learning about this new group, please contact our Young Adult Liasion .

Who Are We?

Echidnas is a small, non-profit organization for middle and high school students with Asperger’s Syndrome, dedicated to developing social and life skills to promote independence and productivity into adulthood. Our group includes both students and parents who meet concurrently in Richardson Texas.

Many of our teens have been diagnosed with other challenges as well, but this group’s main focus is the Asperger’s Syndrome aspect of their diagnosis. Members live all over the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex from Plano to Farmersville to Cedar Hill. Meetings are open to any family with AS. Students are instructed by licensed speech pathologists in social skills. In addition to our formal meetings social outings are scheduled on a monthly basis for real application use of social skills.

For Students

· An opportunity to focus on the development of social and life skills

· A place to foster self-esteem and friendships

· A place which encourages acceptance of self and others

· A forum to learn skills for succeeding in a socially oriented world

For Parents

• An opportunity to discuss and learn about topics of mutual interest

Group Contact

If you are interested in learning more about our group, please send us an email with Echidnas in your title.