Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities: Research-Based Practices Second Edition © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. DEVELOPING AND ENHANCING SOCIAL SKILLS Chapter 9

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2 Chapter objectives Describe various approaches to assessing social skills. Discuss planning and implementing instruction that matches student needs in social skills.

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3 Chapter objectives continued Compare and contrast research-based intervention programs. Describe how educators create safe classrooms.

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4 Approaches to assessing social skills Conducting observations Anecdotal records Running records Event recordings Duration recordings Intensity recordings Latency recordings Interval recordings

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5 Approaches to assessing social skills continued Using rating scales Completed by: Teachers Parents The student

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6 Linking assessment with instruction Selecting social skills to teach: Classroom survival skills Effective communication Working with others Self control Self advocacy

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7 Planning and implementing effective instruction Incidental teaching Contingency contracts

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 Research-based intervention programs Students in elementary school First Steps to Success Curriculum focus What does the research say? Open Circle Curriculum focus What does the research say?

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9 Research-based intervention programs continued Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies Curriculum focus What does the research say? Students in middle school Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents Curriculum focus What does the research say?

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10 Research-based intervention programs continued Students in high school Strategic Instruction Model Curriculum focus What does the research say? CONNECTIONS Curriculum focus What does the research say?

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 11 Creating safe classrooms What is bullying? Bullying: means that a student is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12 Creating safe classrooms: continued Zero tolerance Rights of students with disabilities and disability harassment

Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities, Second Edition Cohen and Spenciner © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 13 Developing and enhancing social skills means Valuable skills for tomorrow At home At school In the community In our country In our world