Make Social Learning Stick! How to Guide and Nurture Social Competence Through Everyday Routines and Activities
Make Social Learning Stick! will be welcomed by parents and teachers alike! In easy-to-understand language, Elizabeth Sautter provides over 185 activities that support social skills development during daily routines and across various settings, from home to school to community. Readers learn to take advantage of the many natural teaching moments that pop up every day to encourage a child s social learning. --Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, SLP; founder of Social ThinkingElizabeth Sautter has given us a great how-to book on a topic parents want most: how to help socially challenged children feel included and make friends. Activities cover the social situations that confront a child, from first moments of waking to bedtime, from typical days to special event days and holidays. Parents, teachers, and professionals will be able to use the ideas to create a seamless system of support across all settings, teaching the nuts-and-bolts of social behaviors that can lead to social success. I can foresee the book providing great ideas for developing IEP goals. Sautter s latest book is a must-have for professionals and parents alike. --Amy Kossow, Parent AdvocateMake Social Learning Stick! is an engaging and comprehensive book for anyone who teaches or for parents a child on the autism spectrum. Sautter offers an excellent overview of what social learning involves and then gives readers a gazillion specific ideas to try in a variety of environments. I particularly love the job talk items for encouraging the child s active involvement, and the activity chart at the end of the book makes it easy to relate the activities to specific program goal areas. --Kari Dunn Buron, autism education specialist, and author of When My Worries Get Too Big! and Adalyn s Clare