S.T.A.R.S.: A Social Skills Training Guide for Teaching Assertiveness, Relationship Skills, and Sexual Awareness by Susan Heighway & Susan Webster (XSS Heigh 2008) Educate young adults and build their self-esteem so they can make informed choices! Specially designed for teaching adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities, the STARS model focuses on four areas: Understanding Relationships, […]
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.
Promoting Social Success: A Curriculum for Children with Special Needs
Promoting Social Success: A Curriculum for Children with Special Needs by Gary N. Siperstein. (XSS Siper 2004) This book focuses on helping children learn the cognitive skills behind appropriate social behavior rather than teaching them a set of specific behaviors to enact. Includes 66 activity-based lessons on social skills, organized around topics that build on […]
Storymovies
Storymovies (DVD) by Carol Gray. (XSS Gray 2006) This video is designed for student’s ages 8-12 diagnosed with high functioning autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. Volume 1 addresses school related concepts and skills and the unspoken factors that give meaning and predictability. If available, item can be checked out from the resource room at no cost.
Innovations: Social Inclusion at Work
Innovations: Social Inclusion at Work by Janis Chadsey. (XSS Chads 2008) This book is intended to illustrate how to socially integrate people with disabilities into employment settings. It is designed for secondary teachers, vocational specialists, job coaches, and other service providers. Pp. 49. If available, item can be checked out from the resource room at […]
About Me and You and my friends too!
About Me and You and my friends too! Video from Watch Me Learn. (XSS about 2008) This video is an evidence-based social skills training for special children. If available, item can be checked out from the resource room at no cost.
Social Activities for Special Children
Social Activities for Special Children by Darlene and Tim Mannix. (XSS Manni 1993) This book offers 142 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master activity sheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. Pp. 416. If available, item can be checked out from the resource room at […]
Raise Your Child’s Social IQ
Raise Your Child’s Social IQ by Cathi Cohen. (XSS Cohen 2000) This book offers direct, sense-making, step-by-step exercises that parents can do with their children to increase their social skills and awareness. Pp. 244. If available, item can be checked out from the resource room at no cost.
Conversation Skills on the Jobs and in the Community
Conversation Skills on the Jobs and in the Community by Marily Banks. (XSS Banks) Provide basic conversation skills to students with developmental disabilities and show them how to initiate social interactions. With 50-plus self-managed lessons, this book is self-paced and takes only 12 weeks of bi-weekly, 10 minute training sessions during which students acquire a […]
Scripted Vocational Role Plays
Scripted Vocational Role Plays by Gary Sigler and Darla Kay Fitzpatrick. (XSS Sigle) In this book, ten chapters of scripted role plays and corresponding worksheets prepare transition students for the world of work. Carefully crafted role plays provide an effective and relevant means of teaching work-related social skills. Pp. 344. If available, item can be checked […]
Autism and PDD: Adolescent Social Skills Lessons Health & Hygiene
Autism and PDD: Adolescent Social Skills Lessons by Pam Britton Reese and Nena C. Challenner. (XSS Britt 2001) These booklets are similar to the ones listed above but cover different areas. These booklets contain one-page lessons broken down into sentences supported by pictures. Teachers and parents shared the social challenges faced by their adolescents […]