I Can't Believe You Said That!

I Can't Believe You Said That!
Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: Boys Town Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1545721475

RJ's mouth is getting him into a lot of trouble. A rude comment at school earned him a detention, and an incensitive remark at home earned him a scholding and made his sister cry. It's time RJ starts using a social filter when he speaks. He soon realizes he doesn't have to verbalize every thought that pops into his head. In fact, the less said the better!

Social Skills Games for Children

Social Skills Games for Children
Author: Deborah Plummer
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 184642836X

Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, this practical handbook is designed to foster successful social strategies for children aged 5-12, and will help adults to understand and reflect constructively on children's social skills. The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. Deborah Plummer addresses issues that might arise when supporting children with a range of communication differences, including children with learning differences, and offers a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies to help children to reinforce the skills explored in the games. This is an ideal resource for teachers, parents, carers and all those working to improve the social skills of children.

Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism

Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism
Author: Wendy Ashcroft
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000503291

Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism provides complete instructions for using fun, engaging games and activities to teach social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders. The games include directions for assessing skills such as asking for toys, getting the attention of others, reading nonverbal gestures, understanding perspectives, and cooperating to solve problems. Using the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, the book takes teachers through motivating, prompting, shaping, modeling, and reinforcing social skills while playing the games and helping students learn to participate in other activities such as demonstrating the social skill in role plays and the natural environment. Perfect for teachers struggling to help their students with autism learn to interact socially with their peers, these games are sure to become a much-loved part of students' daily routines.

Ask and Answer WH Fun Sheets

Ask and Answer WH Fun Sheets
Author: Sharon Green Webber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Education, Elementary
ISBN: 9781586501556

Designed to reinforce students' knowledge of asking Who, What, When, Where and Why questions.

Easy Activities for Building Social Skills

Easy Activities for Building Social Skills
Author: Nancy Leber
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439163538

"Dozens of effective classroom strategies and activities to teach cooperation and communication, manners and respect, positive behavior and more!"-- cover.

Social Skills for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities

Social Skills for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities
Author: Laurence Sargent
Publisher: Council For Exceptional Children
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0865864683

An update to Social Skills for School and Community, this timely new edition places a greater focus on teaching social skills in inclusive settings by creating learning opportunities in general education environments. The book contains 50 strategies for individual and small group instruction with follow-up strategies for facilitating maintenance and generalization. The strategies and lessons included in this manual are designed to address the needs of students who fall into the mild and moderate end of the spectrum of students with ASD and other developmental disabilities. The strategies encompassed in teaching students with ASD have wide-ranging value in addressing the social skills needs of students with other disabilities and those who are at-risk. The book contains an accompanying CD containing printable copies of assessment and evaluation checklists, homework forms, comic strips, photographs, and story sequences for teaching and reinforcing social skills. Additional resources include expression pictures and a file related to data collection and progress monitoring.