Download or read book Executive Function Social Emotional Learning and Social Competence in Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Nathalie Catherine Marie Berard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children written by Johnny L. Matson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses a broad range of topics relating to children’s social behaviors and skills. It examines numerous disorders and problems that are directly affected by excesses and deficits of social skills. The book begins by providing an overview of the history and definition of social skills, citing it as a critical aspect of children’s development. Chapters discuss developmental issues, provide theories of social competence, and assemble proven strategies for promoting the growth of social skills and for treating their deficits. The handbook also reviews a variety of methods for assessing various social competencies, including direct and naturalistic observation, skills checklists, self-reports, and functional behavior analysis. In addition, it provides a comprehensive overview of various training methods, including social learning, parent and peer treatments, self-control methods, social skill group programs, and curricula. Topics featured in the Handbook include: Current research and practical strategies for promoting children’s social and emotional competence in schools. Social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. Intellectual disabilities and their effect on social skills. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its effect on the development of social skills in children. Evidence-based methods of dealing with social difficulties in conduct disorder. The Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, and special education.

Download or read book Flexible and Focused written by Adel C. Najdowski and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible and Focused: Teaching Executive Function Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders is a manual written for individuals who work with learners who struggle with executive function deficits. The manual takes the perspective that executive function skills can be improved through effective intervention, just like any other skills. This how-to manual provides practical strategies for teaching learners to be focused, organized, flexible, and able to effectively manage themselves. Ready-to-use lessons, data sheets, worksheets, and other tools for practitioners, educators, and parents are provided to help them tackle common problems associated with executive function deficits in learners of any diagnosis, ages 5 to adult. The principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), which form the foundation of this manual, are translated into simple, easy-to-use procedures. Lessons for improving executive function skills in real-life everyday situations are provided in the following areas: Self-awareness Inhibition and impulse control Self-management Attention Organization Problem solving Time management Planning Working memory Emotional self-regulation Flexibility Provides an overview of what constitutes executive function skills Outlines how techniques based on applied behavior analysis can be used to teach skills Presents step-by-step lessons for practitioners, educators, and parents to implement with individuals with executive function deficits Includes data sheets, task analyses, worksheets, and visual aids

Download or read book Social Sense written by Tara Delaney, MS, OTR/L and published by PESI Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Sense® Program combines the viewpoints and experiences of an occupational therapy and speech pathology team. During the last decade the team has created and implemented lesson plans that utilize sensory based activities for teaching complex social skills. This step-by-step program can be used when working with social groups or performing therapy sessions in both the school and clinical setting. This practical book addresses social communication and pragmatic language goals as well as adaptations for sessions with students from kindergarten through high school. Can be utilized by professionals from all backgroundsLessons are designed to easily fit within a school calendarCapitalizes on current brain research as the foundation for the activitiesTargets experiential learningUtilizes knowledge of sensory processing to take advantage of the primitive brainTeaches visualization strategies to prepare for future social interactionsIncreases executive functioning capabilities

Download or read book Evaluating a Social Skills Intervention s Impact on Executive Functioning Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Skills Deficits written by Kate N. Terrell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Play and Social Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Marjorie H. Charlop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the deficits in the development and presentation of play behavior and social skills that are considered central characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The book explains why play provides an important context for social interactions and how its absence can further exacerbate social deficits over time. It highlights the critical roles of social skills in development, and the social, cognitive, communication, and motor components of play. Chapters offer conceptually and empirically sound play and social skills interventions for children with ASD. Play activities using diverse materials and including interactions with peers and parents are designed to promote positive, effective social behaviors and encourage continued development. The book provides unique strategies that can be tailored to fit individual children’s strengths and deficits. Topics featured in this book include: Naturalistic Teaching Strategies (NaTS) for developing play and social skills. Teaching play and social skills with video modeling. Peer-mediated intervention (PMI) strategies that promote positive social interactions between children with ASD and their peers. Visual Activity Schedules and Scripts. Parent-implemented play and social skills intervention. Play and Social Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, social work, public health, and related psychology, education, and behavioral health fields.

Download or read book Handbook of Social Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Justin B. Leaf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook identifies the various social deficiencies widely associated with children and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It discusses possible causes as well as the lifelong effects if these deficiencies are not addressed. The handbook presents current behavioral and curriculum-based methods for assessing social deficits. Chapters examine the various interventions that have been used to improve social skills and behavior, including video modeling, peer-mediated interventions, and script fading. Chapters also assess various interventions using empirically based procedures, evaluate the research of each of these procedures, provide guidelines for treatment planning, and offer clinical recommendations. The handbook concludes with future directions for the development of both social behavior and clinical social skills interventions. Topics featured in the Handbook include: Impairments in social behavior that may result in negative outcomes such as depression, loneliness, and suicide in individuals with ASD. Bullying among youth with ASD. Behavioral skills training to promote social behavior of individuals with ASD. The Early Start Denver Model approach to helping young children with ASD. The implementation of social skills groups for individuals diagnosed with ASD. The Handbook of Social Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorder is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, behavioral therapy, and social work, as well as such interrelated disciplines as child and adolescent psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine/therapy, pediatrics, and special education/educational psychology.

Download or read book Unstuck and on Target written by Lynn M. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students with executive function challenges, problems with flexibility and goal-directed behavior can be a major obstacle to success in school and in life. With the enhanced second edition of this popular curriculum--now optimized for both in-person and virtual instruction--you'll have everything you need to explicitly teach executive function skills in today's educational environment. A highly effective intervention for students ages 8-11, Unstuck & On Target! gives you 21 ready-to-use, field-tested lessons that boost critical skills like cognitive flexibility, problem solving, coping, and goal setting. Ideal for use with learners with autism, ADHD, and other challenges that affect executive function, this curriculum includes a comprehensive manual and a package of digital, downloadable components that are easy to print and use in face-to-face or virtual settings. Unstuck and On Target! Benefits: Optimized for the way you teach today. The new reconfigured format makes the kit more flexible--you can use it in schools or during remote instruction. Meets the needs of MTSS Tier 2 learners. This proven curriculum is one of the few tailored to the needs of Tier 2 students who need more focused instruction.Gives you explicit, step-by-step routines, activities, and scripts to help students improve executive function skills.Targets the flexibility and planning skills every student needs to learn effectively, reduce stress, get along with others, problem-solve, and more.Can be done with any class, by any teacher. Each ready-to-use lesson comes complete with clear instructions, materials lists, and tips for teachers.Makes learning fun with engaging games, role plays, stories, and lively class discussions.Reinforces new skills through 19 Home Practice handouts in English and Spanish.

Download or read book Social Skills Training for Children with Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism written by Susan Williams White and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical, research-based guide provides a wealth of tools and strategies for implementing social skills training in school or clinical settings. Numerous case examples illustrate common social difficulties experienced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Asperger syndrome; the impact on peer relationships, school performance, and behavior; and how social skills training can help. Chapters delve into the nuts and bolts of teaching and reinforcing core skills in classroom, small-group, or individual contexts, emphasizing ways to tailor interventions to each individual's needs. Reproducible forms and worksheets can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Download or read book Friendship 101 written by Kelly J. Whalon and published by Council For Exceptional Children. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth volume of the CEC Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities' Prism series, Friendship 101 focuses on building social competence, friendship making, and recreation and leisure skills among students with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Chapters in this evidence-based, user-friendly guide address the needs of students in different developmental periods (from pre-K through young adulthood), providing teachers, parents, and teacher educators with tools and strategies for enhancing the social skill development of these children and youth. Presented through an ecological perspective, together these chapters emphasize building social competence within and across school, home, and community contexts.

Download or read book Social Skills Teaching for Individuals with Autism written by Keith C Radley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current trends and practices in social skills instruction for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), focusing on empirical support of current practices and for which populations such practices have been most frequently evaluated (e.g., ages, levels of functioning). It details key practices that may be implemented as social skills teaching strategies as well as the theoretical underpinnings of the teaching strategies, relevant empirical support, and a guide to utilization supported by the empirical evaluations. These guides to utilization are a practical tool for implementation of commonly evaluated social skills teaching strategies. In addition, the book describes limitations of social skills teaching and offers recommendations for future research and intervention strategies that may overcome its current limitations. Key topics featured include: Video modeling and social skills training for individuals with ASD. Behavioral skills training for ASD. Peer-mediated teaching of persons with autism. Social narratives of individuals with ASD. Social Skills Teaching for Individuals with Autism is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical child and school psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, social work, public health, and all interrelated disciplines.

Download or read book Autism and Everyday Executive Function written by Paula Moraine and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand and support executive function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with this fully-explained, innovative model. Showing how to use an individual's strengths to address executive functioning weaknesses, this approach will also help to build a strong foundation for social and communication skills. Advocating a person-centred approach, the author describes the importance of identifying the individual's preferred style of engagement and communication, and how sensory experiences impact their thoughts, feelings, and actions. She explains how to use this information to identify the individual's strengths and weaknesses across eight key areas which are the building blocks of executive functions: attention; memory; organization; time management; initiative; behavior; goal setting and flexibility. These areas can be used daily to establish predictability and offer a foundation for interpreting, processing and understanding the world with flexibility. Professionals and parents can also use them as the basis of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), or to create personalized interventions and support at school or at home.

Download or read book The Neuropsychology of Social Functioning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Laura Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction, social communication, and repetitive or stereotyped interests (APA, 2013). The hallmark deficits present in children with ASD are difficulties in social interaction and reciprocation (Troyb, Knoch, & Barton, 2011). Social deficits in children with ASD include difficulty creating social relationships, initiating social interactions, emotional reciprocity, sharing enjoyment, perspective taking, and inferring interests of others (Bellini, Peters, Benner, & Hopf, 2007; Troyb, Knoch, & Barton, 2011). Research has indicated that children with ASD have fewer reciprocal friendships as compared to their typically developing peers overall (Rotheram-Fuller, Kasari, Chamberlain, & Locke, 2010) and are mostly peripheral or isolated from their classroom social networks as opposed to their typical peers (Kasari, Rotheram-Fuller, Locke, & Gulsrud, 2012). While numerous interventions have been proposed to remediate these social difficulties, and there has been a plethora of research with regard to the efficacy and effectiveness of social interventions, few studies have investigated the underlying neuropsychological components associated with these difficulties. The executive function theory posits that the deficits present in ASD are a reflection of an impairment of higher order cognitive skills, such as those needed to plan and generate goal directed behavior. This theory suggests that deficits in higher order skills, such as working memory, planning, inhibition, set-shifting, and monitoring underlie the various deficits seen in the everyday functioning of people with ASD (Minshew, Webb, Williams, & Dawson, 2006). Executive deficits have been widely noted, albeit inconsistently, throughout the literature (Hill, 2004; Joseph & Tager-Flusberg, 2004; Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996); however, there is a paucity of research investigating the relationship between executive functions and social skills in children with ASD. The research thus far has been quite inconsistent with some studies failing to find any relationship between executive and social skills (Ozonoff et al., 2004; Landa & Goldberg, 2005) and others finding that some measures of executive functioning are related to social and/or adaptive skills (Gilotty, Kenworthy, Sirian, Black, & Wagner, 2002; Kenworthy, Black, Harrison, Della Rosa, & Wallace, 2009). The current study sought to investigate the relationship between executive deficits and social skills among a group of children with ASD. A total of 23 children with ASD who were included in the regular education classroom, age 5 to 12 years old, were administered a battery of performance-based neuropsychological tests to measure shifting, inhibition, and working memory skills. The Behavior Rating of Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) teacher report questionnaire was used to measure the student's executive functions in everyday settings. Social skills were measured with a playground observation and a Friendship Survey that was administered to children with ASD and their peers to capture their social connectedness in the classroom. Results indicated that children with ASD demonstrated impaired performance on performance-based measures of shifting, inhibition, and inhibition-switching. Performance-based measures of working memory skills were in the average range for the children's age. Children demonstrated impairments on several BRIEF clinical scales including Shift, Initiate, Working Memory, and Monitor. The only performance-based measures that were significantly related to social functioning were inhibition and inhibition-switching. Children with better inhibition skills nominated more peers as friends; however, children with better inhibition-switching skills spent more time in solitary play on the playground. Overall, ratings-based measures of executive functioning were more related to social skills. A number of metacognitive skills including initiation, working memory, and planning and organization were significantly related to a greater proportion of playground time spent jointly engaged as well as fewer rejections by their peers. No relationships were found between executive functions and measures of overall social connectedness in the classroom. This indicates that executive skills (as measured by teacher-report) are extremely important with regard to peer interaction on the playground and well as peer acceptance. As a result, social interventions may need to directly target these skills in an effort to increase social engagement and acceptance. This study, however, failed to find a relationship between executive skills and overall social connectedness in the classroom. Given that as the child ages he/she will spend increasingly less time in the playground environment, it is essential that future research investigate the underlying skills necessary to make and maintain friendships.

Download or read book Social Communication Development and Disorders written by Deborah A. Hwa-Froelich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Communication Development and Disorders examines the integrated development of social, linguistic, and cognitive functions. It provides evidence-based clinical information on effective assessment and intervention for individuals with social communication disorders. The second edition of this standout text is fully updated to reflect up-to-date research evidence and the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (Children and Youth version), and places a strong focus on cultural differences in social communication and extended developmental information from birth to adulthood. Part 1 explores topics including theoretical perspectives on social communication, neuroscience of social communication and social cognitive, social emotional, and social communication development. Part 2 covers social pragmatic communication disorder and associated disorders such as language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder and disruptive behavior disorder. Chapters feature case studies, incidence/prevalence estimates, DSM-5 definitions, referral guidelines, recommended assessment and intervention practices, as well as a list of clinical and instructional resources. This comprehensive and practical text is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students of communication sciences, speech and language disorders, as well as speech-language pathology. It is also an excellent reference for professionals working with individuals with social competence or social communication problems, including speech-language pathologists, teachers, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, school nurses, behavioral therapists, and occupational therapists.

Download or read book Pediatric Neuropsychological Intervention written by Scott J. Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 volume provides an overview of evidence-based treatments for common pediatric brain-behavior disorders.

Download or read book PEERS for Young Adults written by Elizabeth Laugeson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Session 1. Trading information and starting conversations -- session 2. Trading information and maintaining conversations -- session 3. Finding a source of friends -- session 4. Electronic communication -- session 5. Appropriate use of humor -- session 6. Entering group conversations -- session 7. Exiting conversations -- session 8. Get-togethers -- session 9. Dating etiquette : letting someone know you like them -- session 10. Dating etiquette : asking someone on a date -- session 11. Dating etiquette : going on dates -- session 12. Dating etiquette : dating do's and don'ts -- session 13. Handling disagreements -- session 14. Handling direct bullying -- session 15. Handling indirect bullying -- session 16. Moving forward and graduation.

Download or read book Here s How to Provide Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Catherine B. Zenko and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: