Social skills training for adolescents with general moderate learning difficulties / Ursula Cornish and Fiona Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornish, Ursula.

Contributor:

Ross, Fiona, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Education.

Asperger's syndrome.

Learning disabled children--Education--Great Britain.

Learning disabled children.

Social skills in children--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Great Britain.

Social skills in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After many years' social skills work with young people with Asperger Syndrome and other moderate learning difficulties, the authors have compiled a set of training sessions for teachers. Based on a multi-sensory cognitive-behavioural approach, the sessions cover pre- and post-intervention evaluation schedules, and interview and observation tools.

Contents:

Social Skills Training for Adolescents with General Moderate Learning Difficulties; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Choice of Social Skills Training programmes; Strategies for using Social Skills Training programmes; Behavioural approaches; Cognitive approaches; Distinguishing between public and private; Developing language skills; Coping with real life; Need for practice; Aims of the programme set out in this book; National Curriculum Link; Part 1: How to start; Needs analysis; Social Skills Checklist; Interviews; Observations; Sociograms; Part 2: The Training Programme

Introduction: Planning the sessionsSession format; Physical organization; Communication with parents, carers and teachers; Timing of each session; Session 1: Listening and paying attention; Session 2: Listening and turn-taking; Session 3: Monitoring own body language and reading body language in others; Session 4: Recognizing own and others' strengths; Session 5: Learning to say no to unreasonable demands and to cope with peer pressure; Session 6: Recognizing and describing feelings; Session 7: Learning to control own feelings

Session 8: Being confident to explain own views and to ask for support when neededSession 9: Recognizing and learning to resolve conflict; Session 10: Showing care and concern for others; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-90429-2

1-84642-417-8

OCLC:

437178140