Social Skills

By Kim Gallo and Julie Anneberg Welcome to Keeping Calm, an activity and coloring book featuring Playtime with Zeebu friends. This activity book contains exercises that focus on ways children can learn to regulate their emotions. The characters in this book learn how their body looks, and feels when it is calm and when it is not. Activities will encourage your child or student to make better choices during times of stress, and will give them tools they can use to help them remain calm. This 40...

by Frank Gaskill and Ryan Kelly Illustrated by Ryan Kelly and Kara Dahlheimer Max Gamer is a unique young boy who is struggling to fit into an often-confusing world. Although unique in many ways, he soon finds out that he can harness super powers through a very special birthday gift - a video game, which calls upon him to be a hero - a SUPER hero! This is the Premier Issue of Max Gamer and is intended to be used by all children. The book was designed by creative collaborations with large groups...

By Anna Vagin PhD The Movie Time Social Learning method is explained via seven different easy-to-find movies and their accompanying lessons. The movies range from short, simpler movies that can be used with children with more limited social thinking, to movies with more complex social interaction, better suited for individuals who are working on more advanced levels. Each lesson plan identifies the clips used in the movie, and then for each clip, presents ideas and suggestions for teaching Spy...

My Community CD teaches children and young people appropriate social behaviours, interactions, expectations and safety precautions with various peers and adults within their community. This CD incorporates over 350 video sequences of real people interacting in different community settings such as a restaurant, doctor’s office, friend’s house, grocery store, and the neighborhood and allows the user to predict what should be appropriately said or done next. This multi-level program targets...

This new enhanced version offers Windows and Mac compatibility, an exciting interactive game feature, an improved look and design, and upgraded running time and appeal. It also has all its original features, including over 350 different scenarios for the primary school age child (cognitive age 6-12 years of age) that demonstrates appropriate interaction, social behaviours, social problem solving, and peer relationships within a school setting and allows them to interact! This best selling...

By Kim Gallo Flexible thinking, winning, losing, sportsmanship, and playing fair are a few of the topics Zeebu and his friends encounter in Play Power. Children's activity pages teach social rules for game play as part of a group. Red and green thoughts are also introduced. Red and green icons are placed inside of thought bubbles throughout the activity book, in order to help children understand the impact of their behavior on their peers; both positive and negative. ASIN: B00EHHKKSY Published...

4 Book Multi Pack which includes: Play Power by Kim GalloKeeping Calm by Kim Gallo and Julie AnnebergEYE Power Volume One by Kim Gallo and Julie Anneberg EYE Power Volume Two by Kim Gallo and Julie Anneberg

For children with: ASD, PDD/NOS, Aspergers, ADD/ADHD, and Social Developmental Delays. This DVD + Zeebu Puppet Plush Combo, is a great aide in helping facilitate social learning and play skills. This product will help you to define emotions, highlight social awareness, and make social learning fun. This video is slowed down at a pace that gives children with developmental delays time to process. Characters learn consequences of their actions. They learn to stop and think about the feelings of...

Preschool Playtime CD Volume 1 teaches the young child basic manners and behaviours such as greetings, interrupting, listening, waiting and apologising through real life social situations like a day at the park, in pre-school or going to a play date. Unlike passive videos, this software allows the user to visually see the social interactions re-enacted by children and then choose what should be said or done next. In this fun, familiar, but safe environment the user can become increasingly aware...

Preschool Playtime CD Volume 2 teaches the young child basic peer interactions and play skills such as taking turns, sharing, requesting, cooperating and shifting activities through real life social situations like a day at the park, in pre-school or going to a play date. PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME CDs include: 5 different skill levels Over 50 videos to target a range of abilities Fun and motivating reinforcement games Automatic scoring to track each student's responses A print-out of the results for...

By Stephanie Jensen Princess Priscilla is having a rotten day. No bee will listen to what she has to say and no bee will play what she wants to play. In her sour mood, Priscilla finds herself acting rude. She hurts her friends with words that sting and learns they think she is being a bully-bee. After being confronted by her friends, Priscilla feels upset and is determined to be a better princess bee. She listens to her mum, the Queen, and learns to tame her inner bully-bee. Priscilla starts by...

School Rules! CD Volume 1 teaches older children (of cognitive age 8-18) acceptable behaviours during structured activities related to the classroom, group work and physical education. This volume also presents real-life video scenarios covering those parts of school life that are not part of academic programming, including hanging out with friends, hallway interaction, and the sensitive issues of PE locker room and personal hygiene. This program allows parents and teachers to tailor the video...

School Rules! CD Volume 2 teaches social interpretation skills during unstructured times where social rules are most challenging. This CD uses scenarios such as getting lunch, waiting in line, eating, talking to friends, or “just hanging out”. Each situation offers an opportunity for the child to build friendship and relationship skills and increase his or her social awareness. This volume also addresses time management, organisational skills and the use of schedules at school. Unlike passive...

Should I or Shouldn't I? What Would Others Think? (Elementary School Edition) for Primary Schools By Dominique Baudry A game to encourage Social Thinking, perspective taking, and social problem solving in children aged 8-11. Should I or Shouldn't I? is a fun way for children to explore a variety of social behaviours from other people's perspectives. Players think about their own responses to various situations posed on Prompt and Challenge cards, rate them on a 5-point scale, and then learn how...

Should I or Shouldn't I? What Would Others Think? (Middle & High School Edition) for Secondary Schools By Dominique Baudry A game to encourage Social Thinking and Social Problem Solving! Should I or Shouldn't I? encourages you and other players to think about your behaviour choices and see how these compare to the understanding of other players. The game requires you to think about how you perceive other people's behaviours, feelings and thoughts. It helps you see if you see things...

By Dominique Baudry Double your playing fun with the Should I or Shouldn't I? Primary School Expansion Pack! This product is an add-on to the original Should I or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think?™ Elementary Edition game. In the game, players ages 8-11 rate a behaviour in a particular context on a scale based on whether the behaviour was expected or not, and then compare how their perceptions match (or don’t) those of the other players. Teachers, clinicians, and families have been playing...

By Dominique Baudry Double your playing fun with the Should I or Shouldn't I? Secondary School Expansion Pack! This product is an add-on to the original Should I or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think?™ Middle & High School Edition game. In the game, players ages 12-18 rate a behaviour in a particular context on a scale based on whether the behaviour was expected or not, and then compare how their perceptions match (or don’t) those of the other players. Teachers, clinicians, and families...

By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke We all experience problems; they’re a part of life. We can’t avoid them even if we use our best social thinking. It’s a hidden rule that when we’re around others, our reaction size (the behaviour we show on the outside) should match the size of our problem. But sometimes our feelings about a problem are much bigger than the problem itself! Social Thinking teaches that problems and reactions come in different sizes. Big problems are really serious ones....

Social Behavior Mapping Template Poster By Michelle Garcia Winner Social Behavior Mapping is a strategy described in detail in one of our core books on Social Thinking, Thinking About You Thinking About Me, and also in the book Social Behavior Mapping: Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day. The purpose of a Social Behavior Map is to help students learn how each behavior they do has an emotional impact on those around them, and that how a person feels contributes strongly...

Social Behaviour Mapping - Listening to the Teacher Talk By Michelle Garcia Winner One student is squirming in her seat and shuffling her feet back and forth on the floor. Another is tapping his pen. A third is staring out the window. Some students are frustrated because they want to listen to the teacher but they're constantly being distracted. While a Social Behaviour Map can be personalized for each context and person, this poster demonstrates how the concept can be used with a group to...