Parents and professionals often ask how to teach social skills and how to design social skills programs for children with ASD. Often they are seeking answers to basic questions such as “where do we start” and “what strategies do we use?”
Building Social Relationships organises the myriad social skills strategies and resources currently available to make it easier for parents and educational professionals to teach social skills and design social skills programs for children with ASD. A comprehensive five-step model addresses the need for social programming for children and adolescents with ASD. This model is not meant to replace other resources or strategies, but synthesise them into one comprehensive program.
This second edition, emphasises the importance of targeting both social skills and social-cognitive processing.