Social Skill Curriculum Teaching Social Cognition

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It would be so great if we had a National parent Asperger group and we could

advocate for a best current practice in social learning curriculum and measures.

It would be great if there was dvd training for the school counselor etc. Some

places maybe bigger towns may do better and others do miserable jobs at it.

I only know of one social curriculum that teaches social

learning in a systematic way. ( Winner). It looks OK to me. I wish one

Asperger Insitute would just endorse one program.

I'm not an expert to tell the school which program to teach but I will have to

as we only have a hodge podge of lunch bunch teaching skills for typcially

developing students (lunch bunch is fine but it is so very limited and our kids

needs so much more).

What social skill programs do parents use?

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> What social skill programs do parents use?

The closest thing I've ever gotten to social skills in school was, like you say,

a lunch bunch for maybe a month a couple of years, and a semester of one-on-one

for a semester one year with the general ed counselor. My AS son is 14 and in

8th grade. You're probably familiar with the excuses they give, so I won't

repeat them.

As far as home goes, I have taken my son to once-a-week social skills training

groups with family counselors (all I can find in our area) and once a week

one-on-one social skills with speech therapists. I don't know if any of them

were following a program per se. I myself have read Jed Bakker's Social Skills

Workbook and like it. I've never really been able to get my kids to do a formal

session with me, although I try to integrate the strategies into our everyday

life on the sneak.

Simply meeting your child's needs better and better helps their social skills

because they are not so anxious and stressed. Easier said than done! Some

books our neuropsych recommended specifically for our son were Executive

Functioning in Education and Positive Everyday Routines and Autism: Explaining

the Enigma. They really helped me, and I re-read them as necessary. My son is

14, and I have read tons of books at this point, too many to list, so I'll leave

it at that.

Surprisingly, even with such little and spotty social skills training, I can see

results in my son. So, keep at it!

Ruth

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This is the curriculum my son's social skills group used last summer...

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had a hand in writing it. It's getting close to being too young for my son (he'll be 13 in July) but he was still very responsive to the key messages. It was easier to identify with the super heroes when trying to determine if he was responding appropriately.

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>> What social skill programs do parents use?The closest thing I've ever gotten to social skills in school was, like you say, a lunch bunch for maybe a month a couple of years, and a semester of one-on-one for a semester one year with the general ed counselor. My AS son is 14 and in 8th grade. You're probably familiar with the excuses they give, so I won't repeat them.As far as home goes, I have taken my son to once-a-week social skills training groups with family counselors (all I can find in our area) and once a week one-on-one social skills with speech therapists. I don't know if any of them were following a program per se. I myself have read Jed Bakker's Social Skills Workbook and like it. I've

never really been able to get my kids to do a formal session with me, although I try to integrate the strategies into our everyday life on the sneak.Simply meeting your child's needs better and better helps their social skills because they are not so anxious and stressed. Easier said than done! Some books our neuropsych recommended specifically for our son were Executive Functioning in Education and Positive Everyday Routines and Autism: Explaining the Enigma. They really helped me, and I re-read them as necessary. My son is 14, and I have read tons of books at this point, too many to list, so I'll leave it at that.Surprisingly, even with such little and spotty social skills training, I can see results in my son. So, keep at it!Ruth

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There are good books on the skills one needs. We made our own social curriculum from this book -->

Super Skills: A Social Skills Group Program for Children with Asperger Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism and Related Challenges (Paperback) http://tinyurl.com/djqt3n

We also used this book a lot early on --> Teaching Children With Autism to Mind-Read : A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents http://tinyurl.com/dll9zv

This always looks interesting to me but have never read it --> http://tinyurl.com/d4w7pw

This is a good book -->

Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success http://tinyurl.com/dnzea3

I have also read these books, which have some good ideas -->

Thinking About You, Thinking About Me

and

Inside Out: What Makes a Person With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? For persons with Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, PDD-NOS, Nonverbal Learning Disability, ADHD

I really like Winner's stuff but I sure do not like how the prices are so much higher. They seem that way to me, anyway...

Roxanna

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( ) Social Skill Curriculum Teaching Social Cognition

It would be so great if we had a National parent Asperger group and we could advocate for a best current practice in social learning curriculum and measures. It would be great if there was dvd training for the school counselor etc. Some places maybe bigger towns may do better and others do miserable jobs at it. I only know of one social curriculum that teaches social learning in a systematic way. ( Winner). It looks OK to me. I wish one Asperger Insitute would just endorse one program.I'm not an expert to tell the school which program to teach but I will have to as we only have a hodge podge of lunch bunch teaching skills for typcially developing students (lunch bunch is fine but it is so very limited and our kids needs so much more).What social skill programs do parents use?

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I haven't used a social skill curriculum so much but I do talk to my son a lot

when he has trouble with social skills and I write social stories for him.

His school in Texas, however, uses Winner's stuff and I think it

is excellent. One of his special ed teachers in TX went to a conference and

went to a talk given by Winner and she thought it was the best

she'd ever seen. I think it works very well and have heard other parents say

the same.

Miriam

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> It would be so great if we had a National parent Asperger group and we could

advocate for a best current practice in social learning curriculum and measures.

It would be great if there was dvd training for the school counselor etc. Some

places maybe bigger towns may do better and others do miserable jobs at it.

>

> I only know of one social curriculum that teaches social

> learning in a systematic way. ( Winner). It looks OK to me. I wish

one Asperger Insitute would just endorse one program.

>

> I'm not an expert to tell the school which program to teach but I will have to

as we only have a hodge podge of lunch bunch teaching skills for typcially

developing students (lunch bunch is fine but it is so very limited and our kids

needs so much more).

>

> What social skill programs do parents use?

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Thanks for the input on Winner. I think I will advocate for that.

I went on OASIS today and than MAAP and I see they mention her

curriculum too. Thanks so much. It will be helpful to say other

school use this too.

Pam