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Social skills books: two great series: {repost}

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April is Autism Awareness month. When I went to school, we had one day of training on how to work with children on the Autism spectrum. I had two clients on my caseload and most people didn’t know what autism was. In March 2014, the CDC put the prevalence of autism as 1 in 68 children. One of my specialities is autism and I have had extra training on working with them to develop play and communication skills. This week I am in a sunnier state than my own enjoying Spring break. But I thought I would re-run some of my previous posts on working with children with Autism. Later on in the month, I will talk about some of my favorite resources that I’ve purchased as well.
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I won an award at work for “Most likely to be seen on “Hoarders: Speech Pathology Edition.”  I think I could probably argue this title, as I don’t actually hoard a number of the SAME materials.  For instance, I don’t have 12 copies of No Glamour Grammar that I picked up at the local Speech Pathology bulk warehouse.  Doesn’t a Speech Pathology aisle at Costco sound fabulous, though? 

BUT, I can fill up 2-3 tall steel cabinets with my materials.  I saw this description on a blog (but forgot which one-if it’s yours please let me know!)

I’m also a great half reader of books.  I’ll pick up a great book about Speech Pathology and I’ll start to read it-highlighting it, taking notes and then I get about half way through and I stop.  Then I put it on my shelf where it comforts me knowing that if I need anymore information I can just walk over and pick it up.

With my clinic’s move, I ended up bringing my “social skills” kids books home.  I’ve been reading them to my 4 year old who seems really interested.  We read one about interrupting and he said, “Oh mom, that kid is just like me.  I talk all the time too.”  Yes, little one.  There was a reason I chose this book tonight….

I thought I would share my 2 favorite series:

Joy Berry’s Help Me Be Good books.  I lucked out and found a bunch of these at Half Priced Books for 1-2.00.  Check out my affiliate link where I can make a few cents on your purchase (and you don’t pay anymore). A Children’s Book About Whining (Help me Be Good)

She has a variety of social skills topics and does a good job of explaining the behavior and telling kids what to do and what not to do.  We’ve been reading these for a week and my son is on his second day of no breaks at daycare!  Before this he was really trying to rationalize his break taking-he’d say something like “Mom.  2, 900 is A LOT of breaks.  You and daddy would be mad at me for all of those breaks.  But 3, 4, 5, 8 breaks?  That’s just a little bit of breaks.  That’s not a big deal..”  That kid cracks me up.  
 
Julia Cook’s Best Me I can Be books.
 
I love her books.  She has books for personal space, interrupting, accepting no, listening, even picking your nose.  These books read more like story books but she also does a great job of giving information of about what you should do.  A lot of her books also come with companion packets for extension teaching activities which is really helpful when incorporating them into social skills groups.
You can check out this affiliate link to see all of her books:  Julia cook
What are your favorite kids books to work on Social skills?

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