This hands-on manual provides instruction on how to build a social skills program and presents effective methods for teaching specific goals. Based on the author's years of experience teaching social skills, this book addresses issues and skills that are often overlooked in other manuals. There is a comprehensive checklist to be used as an assessment of skills and as a method of creating goals for individual students. There are concrete strategies broken down into simple steps for using visuals, video modeling, peer play and natural occurring situations to facilitate social skills learning. Reproducible worksheets to reinforce these skills are also included for easy implementation. This great new resource will help parents and professionals get started teaching social skills right away!
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Social Skills Solutions is the result of working with children for many years and searching for a tool that assesses and provides baseline social skills that meet all of the specific social skills needs for children with autism, as well as providing teaching strategies in a comprehensive process. The Social Skills Checklist (assessment tool) and module system (teaching methods) were developed with feedback from parents, children and school professionals. Without their help, this manual would not have been possible
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Janis Krempa, M.A., BCBA
Janis is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst currently in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families for over 14 years. She received her undergraduate degrees in Education and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and earned her Masters from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She did post-graduate work at UCLA and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis for Special Education from Penn State. Janis currently teaches weekly social skills groups for students with language and learning disabilities. She consults with special education and regular education classrooms to develop meaningful inclusion opportunities for ASD students and to create a best-practices model for teaching skills, as well as managing behavior using ABA. She strives to make ABA interventions practical and accessible for students, teachers, parents and other professionals.
Janis is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst currently in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families for over 14 years. She received her undergraduate degrees in Education and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and earned her Masters from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She did post-graduate work at UCLA and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis for Special Education from Penn State. Janis currently teaches weekly social skills groups for students with language and learning disabilities. She consults with special education and regular education classrooms to develop meaningful inclusion opportunities for ASD students and to create a best-practices model for teaching skills, as well as managing behavior using ABA. She strives to make ABA interventions practical and accessible for students, teachers, parents and other professionals.
Kelly McKinnon, M.Ed., BCBA
Kelly is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst currently in private practice in Southern California. She has worked with children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities for more than 13 years. Kelly earned her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Boston College in 1992 and has a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis for Special Education from Penn State. She works extensively with families and children with autism, at home and at school, and has recently worked with schools in Southern California to develop social skills training programs as part of their classroom curriculum. Kelly also trains families and school districts on how to implement effective techniques in the teaching and support of children with autism using an Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) approach, demonstrated to be one of the most effective methods of teaching social skills.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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THE resource on how to teach social skills to children with autism!,
This review is from: Social Skills Solutions: A Hands-On Manual for Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism (Paperback)
As an educational consultant (and the mother of a child with autism), this is the book that I refer other parents to when they are looking for a good resource to teach social skills. If you don't know where to start with social skills, start here. You won't be disappointed!
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One of the best on the subject,
This review is from: Social Skills Solutions: A Hands-On Manual for Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism (Paperback)
Social Skills Solutions is a one of the best books on the subject of social skills training. All therapists should read this book and incorporate it into their therapies.
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Social Skills Solution is very helpful,
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Social Skills Solutions is a must have for any parent who is teaching their child the valuable social skills. The book is well written, easy to read and has great ideas for activities. The checklist is very helpful in determining what areas need work and the Module System really helps me to go step by step in teaching social skills.
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Social skills are "those behaviors which, within a given situation, predict important social outcomes." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
module system, video modeling, child with autism, recess play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Social Skills Checklist, Use the Social Skill Checklist, Perspective Taking, Bridget Taylor, Let's Play, Social Skills Checklist Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Social skills are "those behaviors which, within a given situation, predict important social outcomes." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
module system, video modeling, child with autism, recess play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Social Skills Checklist, Use the Social Skill Checklist, Perspective Taking, Bridget Taylor, Let's Play, Social Skills Checklist Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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