£35.99

Social Skills Programmes

An Integrated Approach from Early Years to Adolescence

By Maureen Aarons & Tessa Gittens

From the authors of Autism, this publication contains detailed photocopiable session plans for early years, infants, juniors and adolescents.

Games are divided into eight categories:

• Emphasises integrated working practices that cross professional boundaries.
• The session plans are very flexible; they can be used as presented or adjusted to include aspects of the national curriculum or to meet the needs of particular groups in both clinical and educational settings.
• Primarily for able and verbal children with an autistic spectrum disorder, the programmes are relevant to the needs of a much wider group of children than those with a formal diagnosis.
• At the early years level the programme introduces children to good attention skills, which includes looking, listening and turn-taking. By adolescence, the participants are helped to deal effectively with real life situations, as well as gaining some insight into the thoughts, perspectives and intentions of others.
• Reflects the current focus for integrating children with special needs.

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The Social Skills Handbook

Practical Activities for Social Communication

By Sue Hutchings, Jayne Comins & Judy Offiler

This is a practical photocopiable guide to setting up and running social skills groups. The ideas presented will act as a stimulus to therapists and trainers working with clients who need to develop more effective social communication skills. Based on well-established therapeutic principles, it contains:

• An overview of pertinent theory and the principles of groupwork;
• A range of useful and adaptable ideas for practical activities designed to facilitate social communication skills;
• Starts with basic, confidence-building tasks and progresses to more complex assignments;
• All activities are easy to implement and clearly laid out with information on format, resources required and tips for group leaders.

 £19.99

Group Games

Social Skills

By Birgit Fuchs

This series offers a variety of games and activities that facilitate a positive and fun learning experience for people of all ages in their emotional and behavioural development. The games and activities are suitable for both individuals and groups, and take a positive and proactive approach to the areas of: self-esteem, aggression, relaxation and concentration, and social skills.

This volume contains 160 games with ideas to improve the social climate within groups.

Through a wide range of fun games, the participants learn about themselves and others and develop skills in observation, precise listening and empathetic communication.

Games are divided into eight categories:

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Autism

A Social Skills Approach for Children & Adolescents

An excellent source of practical ideas that form the basis for programmes of intervention for children with autism. The content is primarily aimed at those working with children who have normal, or near normal, cognitive abilities, rather than those who work with children whose autism accompanies severe learning disabilities.

• Offers children with autism an accessible route to a social skills programme and practitioners the opportunity to help students enhance their quality of life.
• This approach to remediation appreciates that a disorder affecting social functioning should be remediated by focusing on this area.
• The authors are speech language therapists who work both in the community and in educational settings.

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