Conversation Club Teaching Children with Autism and Social Cognition Challenges to Engage in Successful Conversations with Peers |
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| Original Author:
| Muller, Eve
Cannon, Lynn
Clark, Jonna
Kornblum, Courtney
Powers, Michal |
| Characters created by:
| Whalen, Bobby |
| Illustrator:
| Whalen, Bobby |
| Produced by:
| The Ivymount Corporation, |
| Prepared for Publication by:
| Baker, Amy
Whalen, Molly |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9981143-0-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
| Publisher: | Ivymount Outreach
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Welcome to Conversation Club! This curriculum offers an innovative, data-based method for teaching both the "how" and "why" of conversation to students with high-functioning autism and other social cognition challenges. We invite students to become club members, teach them the constellation of skills required for successful conversation, and include a cast of kid-friendly characters designed to facilitate thinking about the social significance underlying each skill. For each of the...
More DescriptionWelcome to Conversation Club! This curriculum offers an innovative, data-based method for teaching both the "how" and "why" of conversation to students with high-functioning autism and other social cognition challenges. We invite students to become club members, teach them the constellation of skills required for successful conversation, and include a cast of kid-friendly characters designed to facilitate thinking about the social significance underlying each skill. For each of the eight units, we include an engaging story book that introduces students to the target skill being taught. Over the course of the program, students will learn: What conversation is and why it's important; How to select a mutually agreeable conversation topic; How to maintain on-topic conversation over multiple turns; How to use our eyes and ears to think about our conversation partner; How to repair simple conversation breakdowns; Tricks for remembering what our conversation partner says; How to expand the depth and breadth of conversation; and How to bring all of these skills together when talking with our conversation partners,