Reaching Out, Joining In helps parents work with their child's strengths (preschool through early primary) to improve social skills.
Teach children to pretend-play, play with toys appropriately, determine when to use conventional responses ("excuse me"), tell jokes, initiate social interaction with peers and recognize that others' feelings and thoughts are different from their own.
Features a reassuring, real-life case study of one family's efforts and successes. Explores Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), a proven educational method, for teaching social skills.
Focuses on four broad topics:
- Play skills
- The language of social skills
- Understanding another person's perspective
- Functioning in an inclusive classroom
Table of Contents
Chapter One Social Skills: Ways to Learn and Things to Teach
Chapter Two Teaching Play Skills
Chapter Three Teaching the Language of Social Skills
Chapter Four Looking at Life from a Different Perspective
Chapter Five Starting School
Appendix A Commercially Available Resources for Teaching Social Skills
Appendix B Resources on Assessing and Addressing Challenging Behaviors
Includes 240 pages, tips for using games, modeling, rewards, role play, videos, activity schedules and social stories to teach social skills and make the learning experience fun for parents and children.
