The first two issues introduced the list of books on "popular science" and "communication", how did you learn?
The theme of this issue is "Social". Social skills are a very important ability for children, regarding the areas and development laws contained in social skills, you can review "What are the laws of children's social development?" When will I start teaching social skills? This article.
In this issue, we will introduce the following 5 books mainly from the perspective of social skills improvement strategies.
How to improve your child's social skills
1. Title: "Social Unspoken Rules Analyze Social Mysteries from the Perspective of Autism"
Author: Trimble Grandin, Sean Barron
introduce:
The book's authors, Tempo Grandin and Sean Barron, are both people with autism spectrum disorder. Trimble, now a university professor and livestock instrument designer, suffered from "typical autism" from the beginning and didn't learn to speak until she was 4 years old. She often loses her temper due to sensory impairments in touch and hearing, and she is a visual-logical thinker.
Sean, now a journalist who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4, has a stereotypical way of thinking, highly repetitive behaviors that are not allowed to break the rules and have a hard time accepting change.
The authors describe their own very different and highly personalized life experiences, especially the challenges and solutions they encounter at the social level. Through reading this book, we can truly understand the unique social norms, unspoken rules and unique ways of thinking of autistic people. At the same time, we can also see the attempts made by the two authors in overcoming social difficulties.
I hope that after reading this book, we can better stand in the perspective of autistic people, understand their unique social patterns, and provide them with more tolerance and support.
2. Title: "A Guide to Parents and Trainers in Social Game Training for Children with Autism"
Author: Ingersoll et al
This book focuses on the social field of children with autism, starting from the four core skills of social participation, language, social imitation and play, and elaborating on what we can do in practice to improve children's abilities in four aspects.
1. In the field of social participation, the starting point is to help parents establish a connection with their children and enhance their children's attention to parents.
2. In the field of language, the starting point is to teach children to communicate spontaneously, including the ability to request, protest, comment, share, etc.
3. In the field of social imitation, the focus is on spontaneous imitation on the basis of games.
4. In the field of games, through specific games such as causal games and pretend games, exercise children's language expression, problem solving and other abilities.
In addition to the four main areas, the book focuses on two teaching techniques: interactive teaching techniques and direct teaching techniques. Interactive teaching techniques are the main way to teach competencies in various fields and are the focus of this book. Following the process of instructional technology, we can understand how we should choose the appropriate activity for the child, how to set goals, how to follow the child's guidance into the activity, and how to guide the child to language interaction.
After reading this book, everyone will have a clearer idea of how to train social games in the family.
3. Title: "Practical Work Manual for Social And Emotional Education for Children with Autism"
Author: Feng Hua, Zhou Wanqi, Sun Wenju
Cai Xinhui, Xu Sheng
The authors describe the specific manifestations, especially the difficulties in social emotions, around the two core disorders of social communication disorders in children with autism, repetitive stereotypes and behaviors. The purpose of this book is to focus on how to solve these difficulties through teaching. It is a hands-on manual for teaching children with autism in the field of social emotions, and it can also be said that it is a course to improve children's social and emotional abilities.
The course includes teaching in seven areas: interest development, nonverbal emotional skills (eye contact, shared attention, eye detection, imitation), named emotions (single emotions, emotions in situations, complex emotions, etc.), pretend games, psychological theory, emotion management (seeking assistance, self-regulating interpersonal problem solving, empathy), and interpersonal interaction (answering questions, thematic conversations). At the same time, the authors detail how to select teaching materials, present instructions, give aids, and provide feedback from a premise-behavior-outcome perspective.
If you have a certain theoretical and practical foundation of ABA, this book can be used as a lesson plan. However, if you lack understanding of the basic principles and strategies of ABA, you can first learn the content related to ABA, and then read this book, the harvest will be even greater
4. Book title
Teach children with autism to initiate and self-manage
Apply critical response training to improve social skills》
Author: Lynn Kegel
Robert Kegel
Introduction: This book was written by Mr. and Mrs. Kegel, the founders of Critical Response Training (PRT), and is a companion piece to Teaching Autistic Children to Speak. The book mainly introduces how to improve children's initiative, social skills and self-management skills, and how to solve children's problem behaviors. If you're looking to improve your child's social skills, you can focus on both initiation and social skills.
Initiation can help children with autism develop friendlier and more comprehensive social interactions. In this area, the author elaborates on how to teach children to express themselves proactively:
"What is this?"
"Where's this?"
"Whose is this?"
"What happened?"
"Look!"
"Help!"
At the level of social skills, the authors introduce strategies such as peer systems, the use of stereotyped themes, social conversations-asking questions, self-managed social conversations, sharing, advance drills, cooperative arrangements, clubs, peer help, supportive gatherings, conversation initiation points, and video demonstrations to help children develop social skills.
When teaching each learning objective, there are detailed steps and teaching examples in the book for your reference. After reading this book, we will have a clearer understanding of children's teaching goals, and can effectively improve children's initiative, social skills and self-management skills in combination with practice.
5. "The New Compilation of Social Stories Teaches Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder."
158 Social Stories of Everyday Social Skills
Author: Carol Gray
Social stories, proposed by American autism expert Carol Gray in 1991, are a scientifically proven and effective way to intervene. The social storytelling method intervenes in the form of a story, and in the process of writing and telling stories, it is based on the perspective of autistic children, describing the correct behavior that needs to be displayed in different social situations. The use of social stories can effectively improve children's social skills and solve various problems encountered by children in social situations.
The book contains a total of 158 social stories that cover all aspects of life, such as celebrations, facing bullying, and understanding adults. In teaching or family intervention, we can use the social stories in the book directly, or we can refer to the structure of the social stories in the book, and reconstruct a more personalized social story based on our actual social scenes and children's problems.
If you are helpless in the face of your child's social problems, it is recommended that you try social stories. Perhaps, it will surprise you~