Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome

A Step-by-Step Program

Kim Kiker Painter

Paperback: £29.99 / $56.95

2006, 297mm x 210mm / 11in x 8.5in, 176pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-821-4, BIC 2: JNC JNSG MMZ

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Part I: Asperger Syndrome and Social Skills. Chapter 1. Overview of AS. Chapter 2. Diagnostic and Assessment Issues. Chapter 3. The Importance of Social Skills. Chapter 4. Treatment Approaches. Chapter 5. Introduction to the Model Program. Chapter 6. `Summing Up'. Part II: The Program. Chapter 7. The Model Program. Session 1: Greeting and Getting to Know You. Session 2: Identifying Emotions. Session 3: Identifying Facial Expressions. Session 4: Continuum of Emotions. Session 5: Tone of Voice. Session 6: Initiating Conversations. Session 7: Maintaining Conversations - Basic Conversational Skills. Session 8: Maintaining Conversations - Responding to the Emotions of Others. Session 9: Conversational Skills - Phone Skills. Session 10: Manners and Dinner Outing. Chapter 8.Supplemental Sessions. Part III: Further Reading. Appendix: Theoretical Background to this Resource. References. Subject index. Author index.

Author information

• Kim Kiker Painter

Subject areas

• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes

Keywords

• adolescence,
• Asperger syndrome,
• autism,
• children,
• inclusive classroom,
• occupational therapy,
• relationships,
• social skills,
• special education

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