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Tales from the Classroom: Social Skills in Action

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Adrian McCune

Once I was teaching a lesson on blurting out. The lesson went down hill fast. All of my students (most of which have high functioning autism) started blurting out, yelling over each other, pointing out that the others were blurting out and generally becoming frustrated. I did what any self respecting Social Skills teacher would…

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Teacher Questions: Recognizing Emotions

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Adrian McCune

“I’ve been working on recognizing emotions in DT with my non-verbal kid. What’s a good intermediate step to see if they are able to generalize this without walking them around the building with visuals and asking them about people’s faces?” A great way to do this is to show your kiddo a short video clip….

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Toy Story Social Skills

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Adrian McCune

Start the lesson by showing your class a video of Andy playing with his Toys and have them create a list of Andy’s characteristics based on what they saw in the video. Then have them watch a video of Sid playing with the same toys and have them write a list of Sid’s characteristics based…

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Social Skills Emoji Lesson: Teaching Others to Understand the Differences of Those with Disabilities

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Adrian McCune

I got an email from a parent recently and they were concerned because their higher functioning AU son has no understanding of his lower functioning classmates. Mom said he often lashes out at the other students, asks why they get to keep their IPads with them during class and will tell everyone that he, too,…

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Disney+ Social Skills

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Adrian McCune

This past month Disney+ came out. When I was done binging, I realized it has some great content that you can use for Social Skills! Read on for some free lessons (well, free after a Disney+ subscription). Boy Meets World/Girl Meets World – These two series about Cory growing up – and then Cory’s daughter…

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I Don’t Really Care. Do You?: A Social Fake Lesson

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Adrian McCune

Do you care that your neighbor’s son just did the CUTEST thing? Or that your grandmother needs more fiber in her diet? Or that your best friends cat has learned to fetch? Probably not. But do all these people matter to you in some way? Probably so. You’ve learned what Michelle Garcia Winner over at…

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