Let’s Talk Emotions: Helping Children with Social Cognitive Deficits Including AS, HFA, AND NVLD, Learn to Understand and Express Empathy and Emotions by Teresa Cardon. (XSS Cardo 2004) This book helps children confront their emotions in order to help prevent situations that may cause outbursts. It uses activities and worksheets and is recommended for children ages […]
Category: Social Skills
Social skills is one of the core features of ASD. It can be difficult to understand how differently individuals with ASD perceive the social world, but these books can help. The also address teaching social skills to individuals with autism.
Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: A Step-by-Step Program
Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: A Step-by-Step Program by Kim Kiker Painter. (XSS Kiker 2006) This book provides teachers, clinicians, or social skills group leaders for children with Asperger Syndrome with pre-made sessions covering topics such as emotions, greetings, expressions, and conversational skills. Pp. 176. If available, item can be […]
Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The PEERS Treatment Manual
Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The PEERS Treatment Manual by Elizabeth Laugeson. (XSS Lauge) This is a manual for researchers and clinicians working with teenagers on the Autism Spectrum. It includes strategies for social interactions with peers with specific topics being covered on gossiping, humor, choosing friends, disagreements, among others. […]
Social Skills Solutions: A hands-on Manual for Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism
Social Skills Solutions: A hands-on Manual for Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism by Kelly McKinnon. (XSS McKin 2002) This manual provides training modules and checklists to aid parents in teaching their children social skills. Social Skills Solutions goes more in depth than many other manuals and uses a variety of visual and hands […]
Play & Imagination in Children with Autism
Play & Imagination in Children with Autism by Pamela Wolfberg. (XSS Wolfb 2009) Play & Imagination in Children with Autism examines the issues that arise with play in children with Autism in comparison to children not on the Spectrum. The book includes intervention practices and examples of children who have over come obstacles associated with […]
Teaching Social Communication to Children with Autism: A Practitioner’s Guide to Parent Training and A Manual for Parents
Teaching Social Communication to Children with Autism: A Practitioner’s Guide to Parent Training and A Manual for Parents by Brooke Ingersoll, PhD and Anna Dvortcsak, MS. (XSS Inger 2010) This training manual provides parents with easy to use strategies based on the latest scientific findings. It provides parents new approaches to communicating with and teaching […]
A Practical Guide to Day- to-Day Life, Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome
A Practical Guide to Day- to-Day Life, Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome by Nancy J. Patrick. (XSS Patri 2008) This resource provides practical strategies for helping teenagers and adults with Asperger Syndrome to navigate social skills, friendships and relationships at home and in the community. The chapters are structured around real-life scenarios […]
Thinking About You, Thinking About Me
Thinking About You, Thinking About Me by Michelle Garcia Winner. (XSS Winne 2007think) One fundamental deficit a person with autism faces relates to perspective taking – the ability of one person to consider the point of view and motives of another. This book addresses the different ways this problem can present itself, the current thinking on […]
Social Behavior Mapping
Social Behavior Mapping by Michelle Garcia Winner. (XSS Winne 2007map) The author developed the SBM as a cognitive behavior strategy to teach individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, other’s perspective, other’s actions (consequences), and the student’s own emotions about those around him or her. The SBM is a visual tool that displays these abstract concepts […]
The Social Success Workbook for Teens
The Social Success Workbook for Teens by Barbara Copper and Nancy Widdows. (XSS Coope 2008) Making friends is a skill like any other–there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who […]