Social Skills Activities: For Secondary Students With Special Needs

This is my first time working with high functioning Adults with Special Needs. This workbook works really well in my setting. The instructions are clear and purposeful. The workbook covers skills regarding; Basic Social Skills, Skills for self improvement, Skills for being around other, Using social skills at home, school, work, peers, and in the community. I work with about 25 adults. I'm 2 months into using this workbook and everything is going well. As a matter of fact I'm finding the skills very useful in assisting me teach my 14 & 11 year old daughters some basic life skills. There's 195 worksheets. This book gets my highest recommendation.

I love this book for my homeschooler.

I love this book much better than the SkillStreaming program. I just wish there was a higher edition for students that can read and less cartoons.

I teach in an autism unit and use this for our social skills class. It works very well for the high functioning students. I would recommend this book for all high functioning students in upper middle school and high school grades because it does talk about drugs, sex, abuse, etc. occasionally. This book will easily last all school year if you do social skills with students 1-2 times a week! Since I taught it daily, we did this book twice a week and then games and role playing on the other days.

The teacher next door lent me her copy of this and it had lots of great worksheets and activities to use with my students ages 14-22 SDC. I decided I’d buy my own so I could keep it forever.

Helpful tool

I would like to recommend this book for all Professional and parents who are assisting individuals with Aspergers or and ASD condition. This is an easy to use and very practical resource that I have personally found to be very effective. I am responsible for a Outreach Service to individuals with a diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome in Ireland. I look forward to other resources for this author.

I find most of the lessons in this book (as well as the life skills activity book) appropriate and helpful for my students. However, I hate the title. The "with special needs" part could easily be left off, and the fact that they are lessons on socials skills and life skills would make it apparent who the audience is.

This book is amazing. It was just what I needed to help with the development of a life skills program for Special Needs high school students. The worksheets can be easily adjusted for all students.

This does exactly as it says on the cover!I teach a class of quite able special needs children between years 8 and 11 and these activities are aimed perfectly and have really been quite effective.A must have if your students are quite bright and aware of their difficulties particularly aspergers, autism, speech and language and obviously social difficulties.Excellent value for money, I just wish they did them for every subject!

Great for teachers, loads of resources

This was purchased along with the Life Skills Activities book. This was recommended by someone in the field of Special Education. It has become an invaluable resource which is used on a daily basis! Thank You Darlene Mannix

We are using this book in our program which helps secondary students struggling with anxiety. The social skills are applicable and laid out in such a manner that they are ready to present.