New course for social skills in PWS
Our first set of graduates have successfully completed the BOSS course!
Congratulations to our very first BOSS course graduates; Aaron, Lizzie, Millie, Rowena, Charles, Kerry, Eve and Sam!
The BOSS (Building Our Social Skills) course is a structured programme designed to give people with PWS tools to handle emotional and communication challenges. The curriculum helps people with PWS build skills to read facial expressions, tone of voice, and nonverbal cues. It can also help people try out problem-solving strategies, make new friends in the group and in real-world settings, and focus on what they can do better.
Our graduates had some brilliant feedback about how the course has helped them:
"What helped me most is learning about other people’s emotions and learning how to cope when things get tough for me."
"A couple of things has helped me the most in the course and that is putting my point across to make myself heard, and helped me to try and relax and calm me down."
"I feel most proud of myself for communicating clearly for help with what I needed."
The BOSS course was developed by PWS specialists at Vanderbilt University in the US, funded by the Foundation for Prader-Will Research UK and the Foundation for Prader-Will Research in Canada, then delivered for the first time in the UK by staff and a volunteer here PWSA UK! We're really proud to have been part of this collaborative effort.
Catherine Shaw, Chair of FPWR uk says:
"It’s fantastic to see FPWR UK–funded research coming full circle through the BOSS programme, now making a meaningful difference in people’s everyday lives. This shows how collaboration between research and support organisations can translate into real, tangible outcomes for the PWS community."
