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