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Ellen McGinnis, Arnold P Goldstein
Skillstreaming is a prosocial learning program designed to help children and youth learn positive ways to have their needs met. Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child employs a four-part training approach—modelling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalisation—to teach essential prosocial skills to elementary school students.
What’s Included:
This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 60 prosocial skills. Adaptable for a variety of situations, Skillstreaming is ideal for small group instruction for children who have common social needs. Often used by counsellors and others, the Skillstreaming program is structured to be a targeted, social-emotional learning intervention. Specific Skillstreaming skills can also be taught in whole class sessions by counsellors.
Convenient 3×5″ cue cards designed for student use during group sessions and homework assignments. The cards list the behavioural steps for each of the 60 skills contained in the Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child program. Eight cards are provided for each individual skill, for a total of 480 skill cards.
This comprehensive resource provides the materials needed to sustain skill instruction, enhance students’ skill mastery, and most important – to refine skill use for dealing with more complex, real-life situations in and outside of the classroom. The 312-page manual features 600 easy-to-use lesson plans and related activities. The manual includes numerous reproducible forms and worksheets available as a download. See the menu item below. Some books will also contain a CD for reproducibles as we transition inventory to downloads for forms and handouts.
The workbook helps children move from classroom modelling to real world mastery of the 60 prosocial skills introduced in the instructional curriculum Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child. Thirty new activities help students learn to generalise and refine social-emotional skills such as making friends, dealing with their feelings, alternatives to aggression and coping with stress. The 10 Student Workbooks and a Leader’s Guide give educators, clinicians, and school counsellors a step-by-step procedure for introducing and proceeding with the Skillstreaming program. The numerous activities provided in the Student Workbook assist students in not only learning the Skillstreaming process, but key social nuances that will help them be more successful in their skill use. Each packet contains 10 student workbooks and a Leader’s Guide.
This clear and concise manual is written for the elementary school student and fully explains the Skillstreaming four-part training approach, which helps to reduce anxiety about learning new social skills in a group setting. This guide is helpful to parents and guardians who can better support the student when practising the skills and completing the necessary homework assignments.
A set of 60 posters (18×12″) displaying the behavioural steps in each of the skills in the Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child program. A great tool for reinforcing the skills they’re learning!
"Research Press has just released the Student Workbook and the Student Workbook Group Leaders’ Guide that accompanies the program. This is exciting for the field of autism—practitioners who work daily with children and youth and students who struggle with excesses or deficits in social skills. The detail of lesson plans, scenarios and activities which these two supplemental books were designed will enhance the program effectiveness and certainly support practitioners’ abilities to implement lessons with high fidelity! This translates to improving the skills of their students/clients to achieve social success and all the benefits of full inclusion in their social world and the community in which they live.
As I reviewed these books the first thought I had was how helpful they would have been during my teaching years. As a teaching professor I know how important they will be for every teacher and related service provider whom I teach and mentor. Thank you to Dr. McGinnis for continuing the vision that you and Dr. Simpson shared. Also, a special appreciation to our colleagues Jason Travers and Stephen Crutchfield for stepping up to continue this critical work!”"
- Deborah E. Griswold, PhD, assistant professor for practice in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas
"The Skillstreaming Group Leader’s Guide and Student Workbook are the perfect companions to the Skillstreaming learning procedures. These materials bridge the science-based information from Skillstreaming instruction so that students, teachers, and families can access and apply this quality social skill instruction in meaningful and effective ways. The authors combine sound research-based strategies with their direct knowledge of teaching students with high-functioning autism. The result is a set of tools that are relevant, engaging, and promote generalization and maintenance of skills over time. Well done!"
- Leah Wood, BCBA-D, Associate Professor / Cal Poly School of Education, Co-Coordinator / Special Education Masters and Credential Program, Co-PI of TIER / Teaching for Inclusivity and Equity Residency, President / Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilitie
"Social skills are essential to navigating the complexities of everyday routines, accessing important reinforcers, and developing meaningful and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, some of us have difficulties acquiring extensive and flexible social skills repertoires, especially given recent events that have impacted the way we interact with each other daily. In this important resource, McGinnis and colleagues provide guidance on teaching social skills in ways that are relevant, person-centered, and dignifying to autistic learners. This powerful tool, though directed to those serving autistic students, is broadly applicable and should be on the shelf of every classroom teacher."
- Robert Pennington, Lake & Edward J. Snyder, Jr, Distinguished Professor in Special Education, Department of Special Education and Child Development, University of North Carolina Charlotte
