Life Skills for relationships
The online program has links to lesson plans and activities for building relationships. There are 9 different links entitled: Knows and understands the differences between various types of relationships, Knows how to develop and maintain healthy relationships, Knows how to develop and maintain friendships, Knows how to talk to others about decisions that affect relationships, Knows how to develop and use a personal support system, Knows and understands the concept of "community," Knows and understands the importance of cooperation, Knows and understands a process for making thoughtful decisions and Can use a thoughtful decision making process in a life skills situation. Each topic has helpful information concerning the issue for an individual or parent of someone with special needs.
http://www.caseylifeskills.org/pages/lp/lp_sr_relationships.htm?id=41
Promoting Friendships for Preschool Children with Special Needs
Here is an article posted by education.com that discusses building friendships at an early age. The article refers to common problems that children have when developing relationships and solutions. Also intervention is extremely important in a child’s life, especially those with special needs. For this reason, there are intervention goals and questions for preschool aged children, suggestions for creating effective environments and other detailed information for a parent or educator dealing with this issue. The ideas are realistic and seem easy to implement making it accessible for anyone desiring to achieve the goals listed.
http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Promoting/
“Summer School” for social skills
Youth with AD/HD often experience problems making and keeping friends. The summer can be a great time to work on improving social skills. This article makes suggestions for ways to bring out the best in a child to be successful when making friends. These include choosing certain activities, the right playmate, and working on sharing, negotiating, and complimenting skills. Each topic discussed brings the opportunity for parents to prompt, monitor, and reinforce these skills since they tend to be with their children a lot more. The article has helpful information that will help the parent not become overwhelmed with their child’s difficulty making friends!
http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/quotsummer_schoolquot_social_skills
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Children with special needs3 (those with developmental, emotional, physical or learning difficulties) are often at risk for difficulties in social-emotional development. Many of these toddlers and preschoolers seem to lack the social and language skills needed to initiate or maintain age-mate relationships. Some have personal characteristics or personal styles that keep them isolated or contribute to rejection from peers, and have no idea that their own behavior is part of the problem. I think that it is wonderful that these websites offer support to parents and teachers to help foster socialization for students with disabilities.
ReplyDeleteCharna,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your link about summer camp to develop social skills. I think it is imperative we tackle social skills as soon as possible and as much as needed. Social skills are the beginning piece to building self confidence which leads to independence/self-advocacy/self-determination etc.. The things you mentioned such as working on sharing and negotiating are things rarely taught in the classroom that other students may just pick up on. For individuals with disabilities this could mean meaningful relationships in the future and even higher pay in their job choice.
Thanks! Amanda Ganyo