Presentation Slides from Session #1 - Life Skills and Social Thinking

Life Skills Curriculum
- A curriculum with an approach to teaching critical social skills to early learners
- Skills have been proven to prevent problem behavior and often replace problem behavior with a functional skill
- Skills are divided into 4 groups which make up a total of 13 skills, all in a specific sequential order

Unit 1 Skills: Instruction Following
1. Responding appropriately to name
2. Complying with a simple direction
3. Complying with a multi-step direction
4. Requesting assistance
5. Requesting attention

Unit 2 Skills: Functional Communication
6. Framed requesting to adults (when an item is not available)
7. Framed requesting to peers (when item is being used)

Unit 3 Skills: Tolerance for Delay
8. Tolerating delay imposed by adults
9. Tolerating delay imposed by a peer

Unit 4 Skills: Friendship Skills
10. Saying "Thank You"
11. Acknowledging/complimenting others
12. Offering/sharing
13. Comforting others in distress

How Skills are Taught
-Instruction
-Modeling
-Practice
-Feedback

Social Thinking Curriculum - The Incredible Flexible You
-Thinking Thoughts And Feeling Feelings
-Thinking With Your Eyes
-The Group Plan
-Body In The Group
-Whole Body Listening

Agenda for First Session - Life Skills 10/10/13

Welcome

Introduction
Goals for the Series
Life Skills
    -Instruction-Following
    -Functional Language Skills
    -Tolerance Skills
    -Empathy Skills
How do we teach these skills?
Social Thinking - The Incredible Flexible You!
    -Thinking Thoughts and Feeling Feelings
    -Thinking With Your Eyes
    -Body in the Group
    -Whole Body Listening
    -The Group Plan
Questions

Welcome

New Information Series for Parents of Young Learners

Welcome to the Burlington Early Childhood Information Series!  We are excited for the opportunity to share information about early childhood development with you.  Our hope is that the sessions provide you with useful tools to understand the development of your child.  Here are the dates and proposed topics of each session:

October 10,2013 - Life Skills and Social Thinking Curricula

November 21, 2013 - Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Curriculum

December 12,2013 - Morning and Nighttime Routines in the Home

January 16, 2014 - Fine and Gross Motor Activities

February 6, 2014 - Reading to Your Child and Homework Routines

March 6, 2014 - Transitions to New Buildings and Classrooms

April 10, 2014 - Technology for Early Learners

May 22, 2014 - Fun Activities for the Summer

The sessions will be held in the School Committee Room, housed in Burlington High School.  Each session will begin promptly at 6:30pm, and will last approximately 1 hour.  We will also be available for questions after each session. In order to ensure that the Information Series is useful to you, we ask that you please complete the attached survey. This will help us better understand your families needs, and tailor the information sessions to topics that are relevant to you. Please click on the link below to access the survey:

Information Series Survey

If you have specific questions pertaining to the the Information Series, please feel free to email Naomi Abelson and Tiffany D'Abbraccio at beccinfoseries@gmail.com.  We look forward to seeing you on October 10th!

Sincerely,

Tiffany D’Abbraccio, M.S.Ed., Special Education Teacher

Naomi Abelson, M.Ed., Behavior Specialist