Social Skills

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Social Skills Screening
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Introduction to Social Competence

• Why is it important for student to have social
  skills to learn?

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• Encoding and Interpreting
• Response and Response Decision Making
• Enactment (observable)

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Common Problems

• Aggressiveness
• Social Withdrawal
• Non-responsiveness
• Poor Quality of Interactions

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Common Problems

• Acquisition and Fluency
• Generalization and Maintenance
• Competing Behavior Problems

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Objectives of Social Skills Instruction

• Skill acquisition
• Enhance skill performance
• Reduce or eliminate competing behavior problems
• Facilitate Generalization

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• Role Play
• Modeling
• Coaching
• Teach expectations
• Teach skills in natural contexts

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• Social problem solving
• Teach good choices
• Use rehearsal
• Rehearse in difficult situations

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Stop and Think Social Skills Program (Knoff, 2001)

• Teaching
• Modeling
• Role Playing

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Stop and Think Social Skills Program (Knoff, 2001)

• Giving Performance Feedback
• Application (students use skill)

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Stop and Think Steps

• Stop and Think (use gesture as cue, such as hand
  out)
• Good Choice or Bad Choice (end with good choice-
  I want you to make a good choice)
• What are my choices or steps
• Do it
• Good Job!

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When Modeling

• Make sure your students have prerequisite skills
  to be successful
• Are taught using a language they can understand

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When Modeling

• Are taught in simple steps that ensure success
• Here the social skills script as you model the
  behavior

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When Role Playing

• Verbalize, repeat, or hear the social skills
  script as the student demonstrates the
  appropriate behavior
• Practice only the appropriate social skill
• Role play and practice regularly

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When Role Playing

• Use relevant practice situations that simulate
  the emotional intensity of real situations
• Practice skills at an age appropriate level

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Hidden Skills

• Teach survival in general education
• Self- control
• Following directions

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Generalization!

• It is well know that students can learn social
  skills in social skills groups or lessons within
  a given class, but not generalize
• Teach in different environments

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Generalization

• Different situations
• Teach responses to different cues
• Teach responses to stress

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A Targeted Intervention for Behavior Video- the
Behavior Education Program
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Screening

• Behavior Screening Tools
• Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders
• Office Discipline Referrals
• Academic Screening Tools
• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
  (DIBELS)
• Math-CBM
• Reading-CBM

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Screening Process
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Systematic Screening to Determine Need and Focus
ResourcesAdapted from Cheney, Walker, Blum
(2003)

• Tier I initial and Universal
• Social/ Behavioral
  Health/Medical
  Academic
• Systematic Screening of
• Behavior Disorders (SSBD)
  
  Reading/Math CBM or
• Gate 1 2
  
  DIBELS
• Progress Monitoring
  Progress Monitoring
  Progress Monitoring
• Office Discipline Referral
  Informal Observation/
  Ongoing CBMs
• Social Skills Tool (e.g. SSRS)
  Family and Teacher Report
• Attendance/Tardy
• Identification of Tier II/ Supports
  Target Students

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Tier II Support

• Family Support
• Academic Tier II intervention
  
• Social Skills Tier II intervention
• Medical Referral
• Combination of Tier II supports
• Simple FBA