Re: looking for a book about social skills

May 22, 2001

Hi LuAnn,

I have the book, since social skills have been one of my biggest worries

lately. It is a behavioristic approach to teaching social skills. I

haven't

finished reading it yet and have only tried a few of the techniques. It

is geared more toward the older child who has more social interactions and

more obvious problems.

It doesn't really make the case for WHY there is such a common issue with

social skills for hearing impaired children. My opinion anyway. I would

try some other reference for why there is a problem. I'll dig around and

see what I can find on why. This book is one approach to social skills

training. I think I like the skill streaming book better. It breaks skills

down into simple one page activities for teaching. It works better with

my tired brain. I got the reference out of Mark Ross's Book : Hearing

Impaired Children in the Mainstream, which I recommend.

Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial

Skills (McGinnis Et al. 1984) Research Press.

From Ross:

" These studies and others (...) show us that merely putting the students in

" constant personal contact " , as suggested by Dr. Bell, is not sufficient to

insure interaction if we do not also add the needed social skill training. "

Good luck with the effort. I have social skills goals on my daughter's

IEP but not much discussion of HOW she will be helped to achieve them.

That's

an ongoing discussion.

Terri , Mother of Kathy, 6 HoH, future pokemon trainer and artist

> LuAnn Wrote:

>

>Does anybody have this book?

>

>Teaching Social Skills to Hearing-Impaired Students (Centennial Celebration

>Series)

>By: Schloss, J. (Edt)/ , Maureen A./ Schloss, J. (edt

>Paperback

>Publication Date: November 1990

>Publisher: Graham Bell Assn for Deaf

>

>In our upcoming IEP I need to advocate for explicit teaching of social

>skills for , and this seems like it might be useful. But before I

>spend the $25, I'd like to know more about it.

>

May 22, 2001

Thanks Terri! Matt also has social skills goals in his iep, but without

specifics about the HOW. The guidance counselor told me that she sits with

at lunch occasionally and asks him how it is going, He tells her

" Fine " and that's it. She also noted that his behavior problems have been

fewer than last year.

I want the guidance counselor to put him together with a small group of

other kids with social issues, for some discussion about relationships and

for some role playing. There are no other hearing impaired students, but

social skills problems are quite common in kids with learning diabilities.

She, as it turns out, does not advocate the use of skill-building groups.

Thanks for your recommendations.

LuAnn

May 22, 2001

Thanks Terri! Matt also has social skills goals in his iep, but without

specifics about the HOW. The guidance counselor told me that she sits with

at lunch occasionally and asks him how it is going, He tells her

" Fine " and that's it. She also noted that his behavior problems have been

fewer than last year.

I want the guidance counselor to put him together with a small group of

other kids with social issues, for some discussion about relationships and

for some role playing. There are no other hearing impaired students, but

social skills problems are quite common in kids with learning diabilities.

She, as it turns out, does not advocate the use of skill-building groups.

Thanks for your recommendations.

LuAnn

May 22, 2001

Thanks Terri! Matt also has social skills goals in his iep, but without

specifics about the HOW. The guidance counselor told me that she sits with

at lunch occasionally and asks him how it is going, He tells her

" Fine " and that's it. She also noted that his behavior problems have been

fewer than last year.

I want the guidance counselor to put him together with a small group of

other kids with social issues, for some discussion about relationships and

for some role playing. There are no other hearing impaired students, but

social skills problems are quite common in kids with learning diabilities.

She, as it turns out, does not advocate the use of skill-building groups.

Thanks for your recommendations.

LuAnn

May 22, 2001

> Kay, if at all possible, could you do a group posting or also mail be

> privately?

Of course. I'll be going to JD's school this evening to look.

I do have some links to social skills on my website

http://www.listen-up.org/teach.htm#soc

Hugs,

Kay

May 22, 2001

> Kay, if at all possible, could you do a group posting or also mail be

> privately?

Of course. I'll be going to JD's school this evening to look.

I do have some links to social skills on my website

http://www.listen-up.org/teach.htm#soc

Hugs,

Kay

May 22, 2001

> Kay, if at all possible, could you do a group posting or also mail be

> privately?

Of course. I'll be going to JD's school this evening to look.

I do have some links to social skills on my website

http://www.listen-up.org/teach.htm#soc

Hugs,

Kay

May 23, 2001

> I don't have it, but I may be able to get my hands on it. I'll let you know.

Sorry, but neither this book, or the other one by Ling was available. The school

my son is

mainstreamed through has an extensive library for this sort of stuff, but they

also house

a graduate student program for oral deaf educators, and this time of year, the

bookshelves

are often bare when the graduate students are trying to finish up their required

reading.

Kay

May 23, 2001

Thanks anyway. I see that it can be borrowed from the Massachusetts AG Bell,

so I perhaps will join and check it out from their shelf.

LuAnn

Re: looking for a book about social skills

>> I don't have it, but I may be able to get my hands on it. I'll let you

know.

>

>Sorry, but neither this book, or the other one by Ling was available. The

school my son is

>mainstreamed through has an extensive library for this sort of stuff, but

they also house

>a graduate student program for oral deaf educators, and this time of year,

the bookshelves

>are often bare when the graduate students are trying to finish up their

required reading.

>

>Kay

>

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>

May 23, 2001

Hi LuAnn,

I guess we're lucky. Both in San Diego and now here in Texas, the

elementary school has had " friendship groups " for early grade kids. It

teaches social skills, helps with anger management and talking about

what you're feeling. Kathy will be in one next year too. This last

year we started late. I hadn't even thought about this type of group

since Kathy does not have the same type of problem, but the solutions

were the same. It helped also since she had been having trouble with

one of the boys in her class and he ended up in the same group as her.

They were able to work things out and became good friends.

Look into a " friendship group " or " good manners group " with the school

counselor. They might have those.

My latest push is for carryover, since lots of studies have shown these

skills can be learned but are not often carried over into unstructured

situations. I want to do some playground carryover. We are going to

talk about how to make it work next year. The counselor and the DHH

teachers seemed receptive.

Best of luck,

Terri , Mother of Kathy, 6 HoH, future artist and scientist

> LuAnn wrote:

> ...

>I want the guidance counselor to put him together with a small group of

>other kids with social issues, for some discussion about relationships and

>for some role playing. There are no other hearing impaired students, but

>social skills problems are quite common in kids with learning disabilities.

>She, as it turns out, does not advocate the use of skill-building groups.

>

>Thanks for your recommendations.

>LuAnn

May 23, 2001