Increasing Social Awareness Using Delay Instructions

This program teaches students to be more socially aware of others’ presence by using delayed instructions.

Competition

This program teaches students to be competitive in order to increase motivation and interest in games. Students become aware that they must do something better than someone else.

Keeping Appropriate Social Distance

This program teaches students to be more aware of their proximity to others and where they should be positioned.

Discriminate Likes and Dislikes

This program teaches students to identify if other people like or dislike something. This social skill allows us to match up with people who are interested in the same things we are and to please or avoid upsetting others.

Directing Peers in Songs

This program aims to use fun games to develop students’ awareness and responses to their peers.

Boggle game

This program offers opportunities for the students to practice their awareness, responding and communication to peers. The goal of this program is to increases students’ initiative in making requests and to respond to another person’s request.

Hurray Game

This game doesn’t require any language so it is suitable for most students as long as they can understand the rule of the game. This program increases students’ awareness and responsiveness.

Charades

This common game is a fun activity to teach social skills to our students as it allows children to interact with each other meaningfully.

Classroom Routine – Attendance

The therapist made use of a daily routine to increase students’ awareness to others.

Advanced Competition

This program teaches students more advanced competition concepts that are elements of a range of activities.

Facial Expression: Like/Dislike

This program teaches students to recognize nonverbal cues, specifically facial expressions and body language related to likes and dislikes.

Emotions (Facial Expression)

This program teaches students to recognize certain kinds of facial features that would illustrate how somebody feels.

Emotion: Scared

This program teaches students to link emotion words (scared) to the actual feeling.

Emotions

This program teaches students to understand and use emotion labels.

Emotions

This program teaches students to understand the situations that may make people feel a certain kind of emotion and understand the relationship between them.

Social Categories

This program teaches students to know that there are different kinds of social relationships and different ways of interacting with people from these groups.

Social Category

This program teaches students to know that there are different kinds of social relationships and different ways of interacting with people from these groups.

When & How to Offer Help to Others

This program teaches students to be more aware of their social environment by being more helpful through recognizing when people need help and knowing how to help them.

Personality Traits

This program teaches students to discriminate common traits and use traits to predict behavior and make decisions based on person’s traits. It teaches students to use this information to navigate social situations a little bit easily.

Visual Perspective Taking

Perspective taking involves being able to understand something from another’s point of view. This program is designed to teach a student to understand that different people see different things. It also serves as a foundation for later skills.