All About Autism

[ImMeeMee]

Snow24:

Hi


How and what can we do to improve child social behaviours ? Social skills? To improve his self esteem.

I am grateful that my ASD daughter has two elder sisters that she can learn from. They are her best social mates, and best teachers. When they play together, she has a mix of interactive play and parallel play with them.

Their cousins come over during the weekend, and my daughter has begun to play with her younger cousin. She used to ignore the other kids, but now she is becoming more aware of their presence. It's quite a slow process, but I do see some baby steps.

Skills wise, I am still teaching her about the proper ways of maintaining a conversation. Sometimes she gets it, sometimes she doesn't.

I think lack of social skills will always be a deficit for my doter, we just have to keep trying.

[ammonite]

Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

[sharonkhoo]

ammonite:

Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

Do you mean conversation? I wouldn't want to use a book, actually, as they will probably be written in the west and may not be very applicable here. If you have to tweak them, you might as well write them yourself. I just used situations that my daughter found difficult and helped her practise a few possible openers and responses.

[mashy]

ammonite:

Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

I used the social skills picture book. U can borrow from library first to see if it's suitable.

[ammonite]

slmkhoo:

ammonite:

Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

Do you mean conversation? I wouldn't want to use a book, actually, as they will probably be written in the west and may not be very applicable here. If you have to tweak them, you might as well write them yourself. I just used situations that my daughter found difficult and helped her practise a few possible openers and responses.

I'm not very sure, to be honest. Stuff like rhetorical questions and perhaps body language, and understanding other people's feelings. Are there guidebooks for things like these?

[ammonite]

mashy:

ammonite:

Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

I used the social skills picture book. U can borrow from library first to see if it's suitable.

Oh yes, something like this. Is there a title that I can look up?

[mashy]

ammonite:

mashy:

[quote=\"ammonite\"]Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

I used the social skills picture book. U can borrow from library first to see if it's suitable.

Oh yes, something like this. Is there a title that I can look up?[/quote]That's the title.
The social skills picture book by Jed baker.

I found it useful when teaching my son coz it comes with pictures and different social situations.

We also did reenactment so that he learns to mouth out proper words and behavior.

[mashy]

U can see some parts of the table of contents here.


http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Teaching- ... 1885477910

[ammonite]

:thankyou: I'll go check it out! :xedfingers:

[sharonkhoo]

ammonite:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"ammonite\"]Are there any easy to use books or diy programmes to teach kids social language?

Do you mean conversation? I wouldn't want to use a book, actually, as they will probably be written in the west and may not be very applicable here. If you have to tweak them, you might as well write them yourself. I just used situations that my daughter found difficult and helped her practise a few possible openers and responses.

I'm not very sure, to be honest. Stuff like rhetorical questions and perhaps body language, and understanding other people's feelings. Are there guidebooks for things like these?[/quote]I'm glad mashy has pointed you to one. We didn't use one but relied on doing it day to day as things cropped up. We talk a lot at home too, and I have a younger girl who helps by keeping conversations going.