14 Simple conversation social skills kits for children with autism: Free games, prompts, worksheets, activities

Here are a number of my free resources to help children on the autism spectrum with various elements of conversation.  This post is to facilitate access to them.
To link to the resource, CLICK ON THE PICTURE.

Nonverbal communication prompts for children with autism

Use these in combination with a variety of [...]

Cognitive-behavioral therapy teaching materials for children with high functioning autism: Seven engaging activities with free downloads

In this post I provide links to seven CBT activities within my website

 

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and children with high functioning autism

I have posted an extensive amount of free counseling and teaching materials on CBT in the website.  The following post is to summarize them in one place and provide more convenient links to each of them.

To be connected with each free resource, click on the IMAGE.

CBT Visual Tutorial

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” [...]

Missing Objects Game--Social skills therapy for kids with ASD

click on it, wait till opens in other window, print, cut out, laminate

All you need to play this great social skills game are the six visual prompt cards shown here, and a bunch of random small objects. Kids on the autism spectrum love this social skills game activity. Click on this image, wait till it opens in other window, print, cut out, laminate

This is an easy, [...]

Minting New Thoughts: Engaging CBT Activity for kids with ASD and others

Here is a great activity for individuals or groups of kids to introduce or expand on how to cope with upset feelings.  It uses the metaphor of paper money that is first minted, and then shredded if it is defective or worn out. To do the Mint New Thoughts activity you need to print out [...]