Revealing the Hidden Social Code

Author: Marie Howley
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 184642142X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
The Social Stories(TM) approach is widely acknowledged as a key technique for teaching social and life skills to children with autistic spectrum disorders. This text, endorsed by the originator of Social Stories(TM), Carol Gray, offers clear and comprehensive guidance for professionals, parents and carers on how to write successful and targeted Social Stories(TM) that will help develop the autistic spectrum child's understanding of social interaction. The book outlines the kinds of social challenges that people with ASD may experience and highlights the importance of learning social skills in meaningful contexts. An extended review of the guidelines for writing Social Stories(TM) will help writers to structure and develop their stories. The authors explain the key elements and highlight the potential difficulties that a writer may encounter, while providing encouragement and guidance through the various stages of what is often a challenging process. They include examples from their own professional experience, and suggest ways in which the Social Stories(TM) approach may enhance other strategies. Helpful advice on presentation and implementation is provided. Revealing the Hidden Social Code is essential reading for any professional, parent, carer or teacher wanting to employ Social Stories(TM) to develop social understanding in people with ASDs.

Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation

Author: Eva Brooks
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1071633716
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
This volume focuses on games to manage and facilitate rehabilitation. It emphasizes user practice, attitudes, and experience, and their changing place within developing rehabilitation frameworks. It looks at how users have adopted, integrated, and innovated with games to facilitate rehabilitation. Topics include game technology, game design and accessibility, web-based technologies vs pervasive and mobile technologies, social and collaborative aspects, and rehabilitative outcome. Games for rehabilitation are gaining interest from different communities such as medicine, psychology, and rehabilitation. A distinction can be made between games specifically made for rehabilitative purposes and games made for the general public but that are used in rehabilitation as well. Games have allowed the building of new/complementary forms for rehabilitation and offered new options to produce rehabilitative activities and experiences.

The Social Play Record

Author: Chris White
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843104008
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
This is a practical resource for assessing and developing social play in children with autistic spectrum disorders or difficulties with social interaction. It is suitable for assessing children of all learning abilities and stages of development, from early infancy to adolescence, and includes photocopiable assessment and intervention materials.

A Guide to Writing Social StoriesTM

Author: Chris Williams
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503886
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Social StoriesTM are a widely used and highly effective intervention for supporting children on the autism spectrum, but it can feel overwhelming to follow all the rules put in place to create personalised stories. Developed with the input of parents and professionals, and informed by new Social Stories research, this is a comprehensive, clear, easy step-by-step guide to writing effective personalised Social StoriesTM that give children social information, creating many benefits for them. The book includes many examples of real Social Stories created for children by parents and teachers working together, and handy downloadable checklists that highlight the essential components of a Social Story, helping to ensure that each story you write achieves the best possible results.

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.

Learning About Friendship

Author: Kay Al-Ghani
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 0857003488
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Making friends can be a challenge for all children, but those with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) can struggle more than most. This collection of ten fully-illustrated stories explores friendship issues encountered by children with ASD aged four to eight and looks at how they can be overcome successfully. Key problem areas are addressed, including sharing, taking turns, being a tattletale, obsessions, winning and losing, jealousy, personal space, tact and diplomacy, and defining friendship. The lively and entertaining stories depersonalize issues, allowing children to see situations from the perspective of others and enabling them to recognize themselves in the characters. This opens the door to discussion, which in turn leads to useful insight and strategies they can practise and implement in the future. Each story has a separate introduction for adults which explains the main strategies within it. This book will be a valuable resource for all parents and teachers of children with ASD, along with their friends and families, and anybody else looking to help children on the spectrum to understand, make and maintain friendships.

Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing

Author: Nicos P. Mouzelis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521515858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Examines the conflict between modern and postmodern theories in sociology and attempts to bridge the divide between them.

Social Skills Training for Children with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism

Author: Susan Williams White
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1609182111
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
This practical, research-based guide provides a wealth of tools and strategies for implementing social skills training in school or clinical settings. Numerous case examples illustrate common social difficulties experienced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Asperger syndrome; the impact on peer relationships, school performance, and behavior; and how social skills training can help. Chapters delve into the nuts and bolts of teaching and reinforcing core skills in classroom, small-group, or individual contexts, emphasizing ways to tailor interventions to each individual's needs. Reproducible forms and worksheets can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

The New Social Story Book

Author: Carol Gray
Publisher: Future Horizons
ISBN: 1935274058
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Different social stories to help teach children with autism everyday social skills.

Successful Social StoriesTM for Young Children with Autism

Author: Siobhan Timmins
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503762
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Social StoriesTM are acknowledged as a very successful way of teaching concepts and social understanding to children with autism spectrum disorders, but considerable skill is needed to write the most effective story. This clear and engaging book introduces ways of thinking about the issues your child finds difficult, and includes 32 stories created by Dr Siobhan Timmins for her son during his early years, with helpful explanations of how she did it, and what the underlying thinking was behind each set of stories. She explains how the stories build upon each other to help the child to understand further, more complex topics, and how to see the connections so that you can best help your child. From basic skills such as learning to listen, wait and share, to common fears, this book takes the mystery out of creating effective Social StoriesTM and amply demonstrates how to put together a cohesive set of stories which your child can understand and relate to.