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 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 [...]  Verbal children with autism can find it really hard to talk the appropriate proportion in group conversation. The downloads and worksheets below are designed to help. Neurotypical people find this skills difficult also! Remember that person who would’nt stop talking at the last party you went to? Young people with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum [...]  Children with autism tend to be really honest. This poses problems when it comes to giving compliments. I have some strategies and some simple worksheets here to help troubleshoot some obstacles to successful practice of this skill. This is the third in a series of posts regarding teaching the social skill of giving compliments to [...]  A toy balance is an amazing social skills lesson strategy to teach children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders about “balance” in relationships {Dear reader: If you are in a hurry to get to the point, just go to my basic but succinct YouTube video:http://bit.ly/AxtMPU} This is the third in a multi-part series on using [...] 
Alex Olinkiewicz has had 1.3 million views with his youtube video UPDATE MARCH 2013: PLEASE GO TO THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS BLOG. THANK YOU. It is fascinating, fun, and educational to view Youtube videos made by people with autism. The videos are also really useful to use for helping young people with ASD [...]  Children with autism often need help using words like these. Below, you can download and print out lots of validation word cards like the three shown here. They are great to use in social skills training. [SCROLL DOWN AND SEE THE VALIDATING WORD PROMPT DOWNLOADS. Thank you! Now, please read below on how to make [...]  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, [...] |
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