Building Social Skills for Autism, Sensory Processing Disorders and Learning Disabilities: Over 105 Sttrategies, Activities and Sensory Tools for Children and Adolescents

by Tara Delaney, Mary Hamrick

Nationally recognized experts Tara Delaney, OTR/L and Mary Hamrick, CCC-SLP have designed this revolutionary workbook to help professionals use the sensory system to teach complex social skills and build self-awareness in children with autism, sensory processing disorders and learning disabilities.

This new framework for developing a dynamic social skills program using the sensory system is a way to explore why kids react that way they do socially. With this framework in mind, professionals can build on children's self-awareness and social acumen.

- Sensory-based activities for teaching social skills
-Visualization strategies to prepare for social interactions
-Step-by-step program for groups or therapy sessions
-Activities to address both non-cognitive and cognitive aptitude of being social
-Downloadable worksheets and activities
-Can be used by teachers, professionals and parents
-Bonus - includes 15 lessons that easily fit within a school calendar

Genres: Nonfiction, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

154 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2014