Social Skills Programmes - An Integrated Approach from Early Years to Adolescence

From the authors of Autism: A Social Skills Approach for Children & Adolescents, this publication contains detailed photocopiable session plans for early years, infants, juniors and adolescents.

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.


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.


At the early-years level the programme introduces children to good attention behaviour, 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.


The programmes emphasise integrated working practices that cross professional boundaries, particularly for teachers and speech & language therapists, which reflects the current focus for the integration of children with special needs into mainstream education.

Contents
The introduction; The programmes (over 10 sessions for early years, infants, juniors and adolescents); Appendix.

Readership
Teachers and speech & language therapists working together in an educational setting.

About the authors
Maureen Aarons & Tessa Gittens are specialist speech & language therapists with many years of experience in the field of autism. They have worked both in the community and in education and their experience has enabled them to have a positive and enthusiastic approach to remediation.