Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome

Author: Nancy J Patrick
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1846428440
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
This resource provides practical strategies for helping teenagers and adults with Asperger Syndrome to navigate social skills, friendships and relationships at home and in the community. The author offers advice and useful strategies for tackling day-to-day problems such as visits to the dentist or the doctor, searching for a job, sorting out personal finances, going on vacation, and dealing with public transport, as well as more intimate topics such as dating and acquiring and maintaining friendships. The chapters are structured around real-life scenarios and the challenges they present, followed by step-by-step solutions and suggestions. A final section provides a set of practical self-help tools, which encourage the reader to note down answers to the questions posed and record personal reflections. This accessible guide will be essential reading for teenagers and adults with Asperger Syndrome and their families, teachers, therapists, counsellors, carers, social and health work professionals.

Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome

Author: Nancy Jo Patrick
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843108763
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
This resource provides practical strategies for helping teenagers and adults with Asperger Syndrome to navigate social skills, friendships and relationships at home and in the community. The chapters are structured around real-life scenarios and the challenges they present, followed by step-by-step solutions and suggestions.

The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules

Author: Jennifer Cook
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 0857006851
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Being a teen or tween isn't easy for anyone but it can be especially tough for Asperkids. Jennifer O'Toole knows; she was one! This book is a top secret guide to all of the hidden social rules in life that often seem strange and confusing to young people with Asperger syndrome. The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules offers witty and wise insights into baffling social codes such as making and keeping friends, blending in versus standing out from the crowd, and common conversation pitfalls. Chock full of illustrations, logical explanations, and comic strip practice sessions, this is the handbook that every adult Aspie wishes they'd had growing up. Ideal for all 10-17 year olds with Asperger syndrome, this book provides inside information on over thirty social rules in bite-sized chunks that older children will enjoy, understand, and most importantly use daily to navigate the mysterious world around them.

Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and Social-communication Problems

Author: Jed E. Baker
Publisher: Autism Asperger Publishing Company
ISBN: 193128220X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Finally a social skills program that covers all the bases! Whether it's learning how long one can look at somebody without being accused of staring; how to shift topics, despite one's desire to stick with that all-consuming special interest; how to say no to peer pressure; or dealing with a sensitive topic - it's all here... and more. In this comprehensive and user friendly book, the author translates years of experience working with students wiht Asperger Syndrome and social-communication difficulties. After brief introductory chapters on skills to target, instructional strategies, behavior management, promoting generalization, etc., as well as a special chapter by Brenda Smith Myles on relevant characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, the reader is presented with the essence of this must-have resource: 70 of the skills that most commonly cause difficulty for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and social-communications problems. The presentation of each skill consists of a reproducible skill handout, as well as activity sheets listing ways teachers and parents can demonstrate, practice, and reinforce the skill in the classroom and at home. A concluding chapter on promoting peer acceptance offers sensitivity training programs for both students of various age groups and school staff, making this a complete social skills training package for students of all ages.

Social Skills Games For Teens And Adults With Asperger ́s Syndrome. 50 Games and Dynamics to Work on Relationships, Communication, Trust, and Other Key Social Skills

Author: Sandra J Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Social Skills Games For Teens And Adults With Asperger ́s SyndromeIn "Social Skills Games For Teens and Adults With Asperger ́s Syndrome" you will find a set of 50 activities and games to work in groups with different objectives.What will you find in this book: In the first place, you will find activities whose purpose is to make the person with Asperger's understand the world and be able to relate to it. Second, you have in this book group activities to manage emotions. To the extent that a child or adolescent with Asperger's is able to do so, they will feel more capable of expressing themselves and explaining what affects them. Third, you can find in this book some dynamics to work on the difficulty of making friends. An essential skill for anyone is to develop imaginative and creative thinking. That is why in this book we have included four dynamics for this. In fifth place you will find activities to work on the management of social rules. People with Asperger's syndrome may have a hard time putting themselves in the other person's shoes and understanding what the other person is feeling. In this book you will therefore find activities to work on understanding non-verbal language. People with Asperger's syndrome are people of habit and very reluctant to change. In seventh place you have here some games to work the resistance to change. In eighth place you will find activities to work anger and states of frustration. In ninth place you have dynamics and games to work on hyperactivity or hypoactivity. In tenth place you will find activities to work motor skills. You also have activities to work on language comprehension. And finally, a dynamic to work on excessive worry. In short, you take with this book 50 games and activities to work in a group with people with Asperger syndrome explained in a simple way and where you will know at the beginning of each dynamic the necessary materials, the duration and how many people it is designed for. Sandra J. Rogers is a Spanish psychologist specializing in children and adolescents. She graduated from the Jaime I University of Castellón (Spain) in 2006.

The Social Skills Picture Book

Author: Jed Baker
Publisher: Future Horizons
ISBN: 1932565353
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Describes in pictures the proper responses to real-life situations that youth with social communication challenges face on a daily basis.

Asperger Syndrome Adolescence Pb

Author: Teresa Bolick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610594882
Category : Asperger's syndrome
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Sex. Slang. Slumber parties. The preoccupations of adolescents with Asperger syndrome are no different than those of other teens, but they can be much more confusing. The lack of social skills and ability to grasp conversational nuances that characterize AS make adolescence the most difficult life stage. Asperger Syndrome is characterized by a reliance on clear guidelines, and in adolescence the social guidelines become murky and confusing. In Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence, child psychologist Teresa Bolick presents strategies for helping the ten-to-eighteen-year-old achieve happiness and success by maximizing the benefits of AS and minimizing the drawbacks.

Improve Your Social Skills

Author: Daniel Wendler
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517309329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Improve Your Social Skills is a comprehensive, practical guide to social skills.It contains 200+ pages of step-by-step, easy-to-understand explanations of social interaction, written by a professional social skills coach whose TEDx talk on overcoming the social challenges of Asperger's Syndrome has been viewed over 180,000 times.You'll learn how to: Make Conversation (and keep conversation flowing smoothly!) Read Body Language (and send positive signals with your own body language!) Meet New People (and make friends with them!) Tell Stories In Conversation (that don't bore your audience!) Combat Shyness And Social Anxiety (a little courage every day adds up!) Date Successfully (without manipulation or sneaky tricks!) And More! (lots more!)Ok, enough with the bullet points.I'm Dan Wendler, and I wrote the book. I wrote it because I believe everyone deserves a place to belong and I didn't want poor social skills to hold anyone back from friendship and community. even if they struggle with social skills. I know firsthand how hard it is to struggle socially. Growing up, I was bullied, harassed, and excluded -- no matter how hard I tried to fit in. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome that I put the puzzle pieces together. I realized I struggled socially because I didn't have any social skills -- and just like any other skill, social skills can be learned. So I started to learn them. It took hard work, but I soon started to see improvement in my ability to interact with others. Eventually I was able to start making wonderful friends and today I feel comfortable and confident in all sorts of social interactions.On January 1st, 2012, I launched ImproveYourSocialSkills.com to share what I'd learned with the world. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the site every year, and I'm excited to help even more with the Improve Your Social Skills Kindle guide.The guide you're about to read is a compilation of the social principles I've learned during my lifetime of personal social skills study, as well as the techniques I developed while offering hundreds of hours of social skills coaching. These principles led me to a life full of close friendship, satisfying connection, and tender romance.I believe that with these principles, you can live a life full to the brim with friendship, connection, and love. I hope that after reading Improve Your Social Skills, you'll believe that too.

PEERS® for Young Adults

Author: Elizabeth Laugeson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315297043
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 539

Book Description
Session 1. Trading information and starting conversations -- session 2. Trading information and maintaining conversations -- session 3. Finding a source of friends -- session 4. Electronic communication -- session 5. Appropriate use of humor -- session 6. Entering group conversations -- session 7. Exiting conversations -- session 8. Get-togethers -- session 9. Dating etiquette : letting someone know you like them -- session 10. Dating etiquette : asking someone on a date -- session 11. Dating etiquette : going on dates -- session 12. Dating etiquette : dating do's and don'ts -- session 13. Handling disagreements -- session 14. Handling direct bullying -- session 15. Handling indirect bullying -- session 16. Moving forward and graduation.

How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism Or Asperger's

Author: Jennifer McIlwee Myers
Publisher: Future Horizons
ISBN: 1935274139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
The co-author of "Asperger's and Girls" presents a no-nonsense guide to teaching children with Asperger's or autism the life skills they will need to function as an adult.