Rick Lavoie: Social Skills & LD

Rick Lavoie talks about the importance of teaching a child with LD the necessary social skills to build solid friendships. In this excerpt from the PBS program “It’s So Much Work to Be Your Friend,” parents learn how to plan a successful playdate.

What are Social Skills?

Social skills are described as definite approaches applied by an individual to carry out social functions effectively and eventually be regarded as socially acceptable. Your behavior and interactions with others are indicators that reveal your status in the community you are in, if you are likely to be a friend or partner, and more importantly [...]

The Skills Are Simply Not There

Image taken on 2009-01-19 13:36:31 by CarbonNYC.

Social Skills Training in Adolescence

Models for social skills training with focus on issues encountered when working with adolescents and implications for future research. Series: MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 17665]

Social Skills Training for Asperger Adolescents

One of the biggest problems for asperger adolescents is their difficulties with social interactions.

This problem is heightened by their difficulties with speech and language. As with autism, the asperger child / adolescent also seems to lack the ability to mind read, or have the ability of being able to tell or guess at what another [...]

8apps social skill meter

Image taken on 2007-07-12 14:25:58 by Eric Rice.

Teaching social skills to kids with autism and aspergers–used in schools, homes and therapy centers

Moving piece about one mother’s journey to treat her son with Autism. She started a company, Watch Me Learn, to share her videos. Very inspirational! As seen on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN. Her teaching videos are now used in schools and therapy centers. They reference the ABLLS-R assessment which is used to evaluate [...]

Local Site Helps Austistic Adults with Social Skills

Local Site Helps Austistic Adults with Social Skills
Adults who deal with social challenges that come with Autism or Asberger’s Syndrome here in the Big Country have a new community of support, online.
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What the lack of conversation / social skills did to my life

A portrayal of the debilitating effects of not acquiring social / conversational skills early on in life. How it leads to a vicious cycle of further isolation, and a further dead-end as far as those skills are concerned. How the continuation of it leads to a lack of self-esteem, self-image, and self-confidence. Blog (entries on [...]

Autism-related program helps with social skills

Autism-related program helps with social skills
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Every student in the College Internship Program in downtown Bloomington has a story to tell about overcoming adversity.
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