Talk-to-dad conversation starter worksheets for kids with Asperger's and other autism disorders

conversation reciprocity worksheet for kids with Asperger's

Children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders can find it quite hard to have balanced conversations with family members.  I have created two simple, illustrated worksheets to help.
(To see a worksheet on starting conversations with mothers, click here.)
How to use the worksheets:
Introduce the activity using words something like this: “Everybody has their own separate [...]

Correcting others and tattling too much: Social skills activities to teach kids with autism who have these problems

social skills card game for Asperger's

Here you can download an entire illustrated kit to help children with Asperger’s who are struggling to understand when to tattle and correct people.

Tattling and correcting and children with Asperger’s

If you work with children on the autism spectrum, then you are aware of their  motivation to order their social world by applying and imposing [...]

“Talk to Mom” illustrated social skills worksheets for kids with Asperger’s and other ASD’s

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Children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders have a hard time learning, recalling and using facts about others in conversation. Here are two illustrated worksheets to help.

Children with autism love their moms, but they might have trouble having a decent conversation with them.
Even the most intelligent children with autism spectrum disorders can find it extremely [...]

Seven social skills worksheets for kids with ASD who are socially isolated

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Below, there are seven simple worksheets for you to download on the topic of dealing with social isolation.

In an earlier post, I provide an isolation card activity for you to download and use in your social skills teaching activities with children on the autism spectrum.  Here are some additional materials for you to use, [...]

Dealing with Losing and Disappointment: Teaching these social skills to kids with ASD - illustrated panels

losing and Asperger's

Below, you can download and print seven panels, like this one here, all on dealing with losing and disappointment.

Helping children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders to deal with losing and disappointment
Children with ASD often have particular problems with losing: Not getting their way, not being first, not being chosen or called on, [...]

Social skills card teaching activity for children with ASD who are isolated

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This shows a social skills card game you can download and make pretty easily. It’s to help children with ASD to explore issues related to social isolation.

Social isolation is common in children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders.  The reasons are obvious.  They can become enthralled with preferred activities that they carry out [...]

Flexibility in kids with ASD - Card activity to teach this social skill to children on the autism spectrum

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Children on the autism spectrum struggle with rigidity. This blog post provides a social skills card game activity to help kids with ASD to become more aware of rigidity and to begin to work on some ways to cope.

Children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders have a lot of problems with rigidity.  They [...]

TALK less and SHOW more: Many kids with autism need fewer words in social skills teaching

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Many children with autism spectrum disorders can get bogged down with our spoken teaching. In this blog post, I offer some guidance on how to establish a visual oriented social skills training style for those children on the autism spectrum who appear to favor this modality.

If you work a lot with children who have [...]

Teaching children with autism the social skill of discerning silly from serious

social skills training activity

Children on the autism spectrum often need help understanding levels of formality. This blog post provides you a colorful and fun social skills game to play. There are 32 cards for you to print out below.

Young people with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders often struggle to understand what I call “levels of formality” [...]

Eye contact in children with autism - Times to AVOID it in social skills teaching with kids on the autism spectrum

eye contact in kids with ASD

There are times when insisting on eye contact runs contrary to our goals in teaching and counseling when we are helping kids on the autism spectrum with social skills

Teachers, mental health professionals and speech and language therapists all work hard to help children on the autism spectrum to improve their use of face and [...]