Autism & PDD Picture Stories & Language Activities Social Skills

Program uses a proven formula for making social skills "stick" - familiar characters, predictable routines, and memorable, concrete behaviors. Structured lesson format reduces student anxiety and promotes learning. Students learn the right and wrong ways to act at school, at home, with relatives, with other children, and in the community.

Fun, interactive lessons target skills in sequencing, predicting, question-answering, and processing verbal information.

Each lesson follows the same two-day routine and can be used with one student, a small group, or an entire class. Matt and Molly are the main characters of every story, so students begin to consider them good friends as they progress through each lesson.

Each program includes eight stories (total of 40 stories) with:

• Four full-color, 8 1/2" x 11" pictures to tell each story (32 story sequence pictures for each program).
• Four large-print sentence strips per story that students match to the correct illustrations (32 sentence strips for each program).
• Question flash cards and wrong/right cards for students to learn ways to act in social situations.
• Teacher manual with complete lesson plans and teaching techniques designed to engage students in learning. The manual includes:
  • Ready-to-use lists of yes/no, wh-, and how questions for each story
  • Teaching suggestions
  • Pocket-size version of each story
  • List of easy-to-find props for role-playing each story sequence
  • Progress chart

Social Skills in the Community

Learn appropriate behaviors for the doctor's office, barber, mall, grocery store, bank, movies, dentist, and a restaurant.

Social Skills with Family

Use appropriate manners in situations like accepting gifts, eating unfamiliar foods, hugs from relatives, playing games, and more.

Social Skills with Friends

Learn how to make socially acceptable greetings and responses and maintain friendships.

Social Skills at Home

Improve social language and social behavior at home in the areas of handwashing, bedtime routine, grooming, watching TV, playing with a pet, and more.

Social Skills at School

Learn the right and wrong ways to act in school situations such as riding the bus, art activities, lining up, lunchroom routine, bathroom routine, and more.

Each program includes: 28-page lesson plan book; 32 story cards (8½" x 11"); 10 perforated sheets with large print sentences, question flash cards, and wrong/right cards; progress monitoring chart; and vinyl folder.