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Visual Techniques for Developing Social Skills: Activities and Lesson Plans for Teaching Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
This book provides practical, hands-on strategies for teaching social skills to children with high-functioning autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. For use in both general education and special education classrooms, each chapter includes a detailed description of the social deficits of these children and ways to address them. Such issues include difficulties with understanding idioms, taking turns in conversation, understanding tone of voice, and body language.
88 pages, Paperback
First published February 24, 2012
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May 9, 2012
The lessons are broken down into three main areas:
Interpersonal Interactions
Appropriate Communication, and
Working Successfully with Others
Each lesson includes a detailed plan with clear directions on how to present the concepts and activities along with a list of what materials are needed. The items are mostly common objects that are used in ways designed to bridge the gap between typical verbal instruction methods and easier-to-process visual and hands-on representations.
Moyes also gives some good guidelines on how to organize the groups, including how to bring in typically developing peers. Two very important points that she highlights in her opening chapter remind us that we must also maintain an awareness of each participant’s own understanding and challenges:
Firstly, she instructs, “In your future interactions with a child on the spectrum, please make sure you consider whether he is exhibiting problematic social behavior because he is incompetent or because he is noncompliant.” Boy, isn’t that what we all want to know! It’s often hard to find the answer to this question, but I will say that having the adults who are working with my son understand this distinction goes a long way towards helping me trust them.
Secondly, she reminds, “We must not forget that children’s social deficits do not occur in isolation of their cognitive and language deficiencies.” This is so true, and a good program will take into account the whole picture of the child’s current abilities and challenges. A leader who can find the balance between motivating and frustrating a child is a person to be treasured!
Visual Techniques for Developing Social Skills offers a clear and concise program that could easily be used by any clinician or educator working with children on the spectrum. I highly recommend it.
Interpersonal Interactions
Appropriate Communication, and
Working Successfully with Others
Each lesson includes a detailed plan with clear directions on how to present the concepts and activities along with a list of what materials are needed. The items are mostly common objects that are used in ways designed to bridge the gap between typical verbal instruction methods and easier-to-process visual and hands-on representations.
Moyes also gives some good guidelines on how to organize the groups, including how to bring in typically developing peers. Two very important points that she highlights in her opening chapter remind us that we must also maintain an awareness of each participant’s own understanding and challenges:
Firstly, she instructs, “In your future interactions with a child on the spectrum, please make sure you consider whether he is exhibiting problematic social behavior because he is incompetent or because he is noncompliant.” Boy, isn’t that what we all want to know! It’s often hard to find the answer to this question, but I will say that having the adults who are working with my son understand this distinction goes a long way towards helping me trust them.
Secondly, she reminds, “We must not forget that children’s social deficits do not occur in isolation of their cognitive and language deficiencies.” This is so true, and a good program will take into account the whole picture of the child’s current abilities and challenges. A leader who can find the balance between motivating and frustrating a child is a person to be treasured!
Visual Techniques for Developing Social Skills offers a clear and concise program that could easily be used by any clinician or educator working with children on the spectrum. I highly recommend it.
July 24, 2014
Very clear, interesting; more relevant for classroom teaching than for my current setting, but an interesting exercise/reminder in perspective and patience.
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