Social Skills Stories

New Edition Now Available!

 

Social Skills Stories now incorporates behavioral approaches as well as cognitive-behavioral interventions to teach essential social skills. Cognitive behavioral interventions are powerful procedures that can have positive results when used to teach students self-management of their academic and interpersonal behaviors. Social Skills Stories provides a curriculum to teach fifteen essential social skills. 

Personal Development 

These skills include problem solve, control anger, resist peer pressure and respond to teasing, stay on task, reach a goal, and get help.  

Social Development 

These skills include give and accept compliments, participate in a group, negotiate, listen, follow instructions, accept criticism, greet others, and interrupt others. 

These fifteen social skills a e taught through games, role play, selected children's literature, and direct instruction. The growing evidence base in the clinical setting supporting the use of cognitive behavioral interventions shows promise for the use of these interventions in school and home settings. Social Skills Stories builds on this promise by utilizing cognitive behavioral interventions in the development of positive social skills for children in need.

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Previous Edition Still Available on CD 

for use with students who may not comprehend cognitive interventions, but need behavioral interventions

Teaching Social Skills through Children’s Literature

The Social Skills Program that teaches social skills they will use!

This curriculum is designed to teach social skills for use at home, in school, and in the community in ways that capture the attention of students with various learning styles and learning or behavioral difficulties. Based on the Dubuque Management System Social Skills.

Check out the Links to Literature Page to purchase the children's literature from Amazon.com.