The principals of the A.B.A. protocol give us tools to teach some social skills as part of our everyday teaching. These include communicating with others in an appropriate way, following instructions, learning and adapting new skills and behaviour patterns.
The book I often refer to is called 'Social Skills Solutions' - a hands-on manual, written by Kelly McKinnon and Janis Krempa. It is described well by Rafael Castro:
"Starting with the initial assessment of the child's proficiency proir to the start of the program to the implementation of each of it's modules to the smallest details"
The checklist and modules in the book are well-designed and when completed, cover a full range of skill areas for evaluation. This helps us to write recommendations and curriculum development for individual children.
The text also covers strategies for your curriculum, and a good selection of useable resources.
For those of us who are working with children who have social skills difficulties, this is an extremly useful text.
You can also write social stories for children.
Points to include in your social story:
- A title
- A narrative - what do you want your child to learn?
- Event lines
- Emotion lines
- Story lines
- A ending
You can also include pictures to illustrate the key aspects of your story.
The games we write at Hometrain - 'How Are You?' and 'Hello' each have eight characters, 4 boys and 4 girls. Each child has a social scenario and emotion that the player can learn about, and relate to. They are written this way to join together children, emotions and related social scenarios together.
Associated worksheets and colouring pages are printable also from the same disc.
The birthday party game is fun to play and opens up many different avenues of conversation and learning about this social scene.
You can play this free online here: http://www.hometrain.ie/games/party.php
There are also colouring pages in our free resources.
Happy teaching!
Claire.
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