1 How to Listen: Listening Position / Video
2 Greeting by using the person’s name (and using the person’s name in general) / Video
3 Sharing / Video
4 Complimenting / Video
5 Taking Turns Talking: The 2 Question Rule / Video
6 Staying on Topic / Video
7 How to Interrupt the right way / Video
8 Starting a Conversation / Video
9 Joining a Conversation / Video
10 Maintaining a Conversation / Video
11 Ending a Conversation (& Saying Goodbye) / Video
12 Introducing Topics of Interest (visible clues)
13 Introducing Topics of Interest (invisible clues) [Review Conversation Skills]
14 Being Silly vs. Being Funny
15 Introducing Yourself
16 Getting to Know Someone New
17 Initiating Play
18 Joining in on Play
19 Ending Play
20 Don’t Be a Space Invader
21 How to Win / How to Lose with a Friend
22 Introducing a Game of Interest with Invisible Play Clues
23 How to Initiate and Maintain Pretend Play (i.e., recess play) / How to Join in on Pretend Play
24 Compromising
25 How compromising shows your friend how important he/she is
26 Compromising with your friend when it is really hard to
27 Offering Help to others
28 Accepting Help from another person
29 Keeping Calm
30 Setting up and Going to Your Calm Place
31 Problem Solving - Finding Solutions
32 Problem Solving – One Piece at a Time
33 Recognizing Feelings
34 Perspective Taking: How others may be thinking something different than me
35 Perspective Taking: How my behavior affects what others may be thinking or feeling
36 Talking to Others when Upset
37 Understanding and Dealing with Anger
38 Cool Thought vs. Hot Thought
39 Don’t let in Mr. Polar Head (rigid thinking)
40 Polar Thinking vs. Option Thinking (flexible over rigid thinking)
41 Dealing with Making a Mistake
42 Trying when the Work is Hard
43 Trying Something New
44 Accepting “No” for an Answer
45 Dealing with being Teased and Bullied (and Acts of Aggression) – incl. research findings
46 Dealing with Being Left Out
47 Being Assertive in a Respectful Way
48 Safe vs. Unsafe Behaviors w/ Peers and Adults
49 Good News vs. Bad News Coping Skill
50 Let’s Do Something Different – Learning to cope around unexpected changes
51 Social Repair: Saying “I’m sorry” and Fixing the mistake
52 Using your Inside Voice – Not talking too loud with your friends
53 Telling the Truth = Making and Keeping Friends
54 How Repeating a Question or Comment over and over again can Tire Your Friends Out
55 Avoiding Sensitive Topics
56 Knowing when you are going overboard with what you are saying or doing.
57 Review of Social Repair Skills
58 Calling a Friend on the Phone
59 Answering the Phone / Talking with a Friend
60 Games of Luck vs. Games of Skills
61 Cooperative vs. Competitiveness
62 Looking for Group Clues within a new environment /
Predicting what Group Clues you might see and being ready (Exec. Functioning)
64 Matching your own behavior with others: Mirroring your own behavior based on what others are doing
65 Time Management Skills (Exec. Functioning)
66 Review: Gaining Positive Attention from your Friends
67 Playdate Strategies: Using your Friendship Skills when it Counts
68 Advanced Brining up an Topic of Interest while monitoring your Friend’s Response
69 Advanced Complimenting
70 Examining our Strengths and Challenges
71 Harry and the Terrible Whatzit by Dick Gackenback
72 What can we learn from Harry and the Whatzit?
*Sections of the above curriculum are based on the work of Dr. Jed Baker (http://www.jedbaker.com/) (http://socialskillstrainingproject.com/)