Social skills groups

There are so many reasons why I love watching animated clips while working with my social kids: they are short (so you can stop-start to discuss and still get through it all in 30 minutes), they are engaging (so attention is typically not an issue) and they usually don’t have much language (which means lots […]

Games can be the perfect tool to introduce and teach social emotional learning skills to kids and young adults. These are the skills that help kids become more self-aware, develop positive relationships, show empathy towards others, manage emotions, use self-control, resolve conflicts, and make posi

This is a fabulous guest blog post by Lisa Erwin of My Speech Tools. “All they do in speech is play games.” Have you heard that comment before? Well, sometimes we watch movies too! Movie clips and sho

How to Run a Social Skills Group Many of our children with language delays also have trouble with social skills. This may be due to certain conditions that impair social skills, like autism, or it may just be because these children have trouble learning language and social interactions rely heavily on language skills. Whatever the cause,

Teach and prompt your students with these easy social skills visuals. Provide intervention for conversation skills with self-rating tools!

Videos on social skills for kids. Curated collection of social skills videos on topics like treating other with respect, self management, empathy, being polite, cooperating and more. List of free social skills videos for your next social skills lesson. Part of our Best of the Web curated free social skills tools.

Think it or say it? If you're looking for social filter activities for kids that help them learn how to think before they speak, this post is for you!

Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take