Social Skills Activities for Special Children

by Darlene Mannix

Book Overview

A flexible, ready-to-use program to help special students in grades K-5 learn appropriate ways to behave among others The revised and updated second edition of this bestselling resource book provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876288689
• ISBN13: 9780876288689
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.9" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

For people who don't have a lot of expressive language

This book is for all ages, many of my clients doesn't speak well, this help me a lot because has an easy language and clearly draws. And for students who like to paint with crayons or any kind of paint is fantastic, they will enjoy, and while they are painting you talk about the activity so they don't get burn. I am a Spanish speaking, I know English but not more of my patients, so the illustration (you can reproduce it) helps a lot, they usually colloring the pages while I speak with them, they talk more than usually. Try it!

great book

I found this book to be very helpful in working with students both individually and in groups. I used the activities for students ages K-5. Everyone enjoyed the activities, and the structure of the lessons helped me to guide discussions and have questions prepared to ask even on the busiest of days!

An excellent book for higher functioning special folks.

I found this book to be extremely helpful for my highly-functioning autistic child. It covers a vast range of situations and involves the student in thinking about solutions and coming up with their own answers. I like it so much that I'm buying one for one of his teachers as well. It is geared to higher functioning students -- others could use this as a framework and simplify things a bit, or try Carol Gray's book "The New Social Story Book" which is written much more simply and directly. It's also an excellent book, but was too simple for my needs.

Useful tool for elementary age kids

Does your child come home from grade school complaining about other children? Is he or she having a tough time at recess? Do you get notes home from the teacher saying your child is daydreaming during instructions, or not behaving appropriately in the cafeteria-- even though your child has no special behavioral or cognitive problems? This might be the book for you.This book is useful for almost any elementary aged child, and especially for the many that need to heighten their social skills. Depending on the child, some lessons will be more beneficial than others. For example, both my children enjoyed the unit on relating to peers. All kids grapple with "sharing friends", being a fair friend, listening to others, etc. Other units deal with respect for authority, procrastination, listening to instructions, etc. The subjects of this book are not commonly "taught" at school, and are also often overlooked at home, because everyone is so busy trying to play soccer and the violin and chess and do homework and gymnastics. Yet mastering the skills taught in this book will determine much of the success your child experiences throughout school, and probably life. Although we like to think our kids will learn the lessons in this book by following our good examples, or perhaps just by osmosis, fact is, most 2nd-4th graders could use a little review on the niceties of human interaction.The book is really a workbook with instructions for the teacher, followed by a workpage for the child. I presume it was designed for school social workers to use with kids of various abilities. My children, who seem perfectly normal, like doing the worksheets, and especially enjoy the funny illustrations of children exhibiting inappropriate behavior. A little humor never hurt when delivering a message to an eight year old, eh?

I like thsi book

Book very good. can read it. It is cool. I worked in it. I have special needs . It helped a little bit. It was hard.