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Foundation skills such as imitation, initiation of interactions, maintaining interactions, play skills, language and communication skills, understanding and regulating emotions, and perspective-taking and theory of mind skills improves the social competence of learners with ASD.

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Here is a Lesson Plan example taken from our Affirm Module. This lesson plan teaches a student to join a group, identifying a nonverbal cues, accepting no, and observing peers. Educators should use this kind of outline in the event of planning their lesson. Please click on the attachment to see full outline.

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This video demonstrates a SST goal made to practice taking turns speaking by video-modeling

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-Determining if SST will be 1-on-1 or in a group
-Selecting a peer, or more, for participation
-Conduct Social Skills Assessment: Previous assessments, interviews, talking with learner, observations, use of formal assessment tools ( ex. Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS), and completion of skills inventory
-Content of Lesson (if the target skill was making conversations, one step might be to make good eye contact)
-Format Structure ( modeling, practice, feedback, etc.)
-Selecting one of the instructional strategies
-Materials (camera, pen, paper, etc.)
-Prepare parents and other educators to assist with training
-A meeting time and place for the training (classroom at lunch time)

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Here is an article discussing research done relating to Social Skills Training 

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Here is an article discussing research done relating to Social Skills Training 

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This research was focused on families with boys that have Asperger's Syndrome.

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Here is a visual cue that was given as an example in our module.

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Here was an example given in the SST AFIRM Module.

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Here was an example given in the SST AFIRM Module.

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The teacher in this situation provided a social narrative to help the learner understand why asking for help is better choice.

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Direct instruction
Modeling
Video-modeling
Role-play
Prompting
Reinforcement
Visual Cues
Stories/Social Narratives
Facilitated practice
Practice with trained peer

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Any adult-directed instruction in which social skills are targeted for improvement.

It can occur in a group or individual format.