Making Friends, Prek-3: A Social Skills Program for Inclusive Settings by Ruth H

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"Ideal for inclusive settings, this second edition of Wanna Play (Corwin 2006) provides many easily implemented and fun-filled ways to enhance children's social skills"—

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Ideal for inclusive settings, this newly retitled edition of "Wanna Play "provides many easily implemented and fun-filled ways to enhance children s social skills.

Author Biography

Ruth Herron Ross, owner and author of The Wanna Play Program, holds a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Beaver College and a Master of Science in Special Education and Specialty Reading from St. Joseph's University. She is currently working on her BCBA. Ruth has dedicated her life to the education of children with special needs and the autism community. Ruth has work with children from ages two to seventeen and is trained in a variety of one-on-one early intervention and therapeutic programs such as ABA, Floortime, Son-Rise, and Interactive Metronome. Her 15 years of education experiences, combined with her early intervention training, gave Ruth the foundation of knowledge in autism, language development, and socialization skills needed to create The Wanna Play Program. Over the years she has provided numerous trainings to parents and professional and is a founding member and lead trainer of the Valley Forge Education Services' community outreach program Caring Kinships: ASD-Matching Families with Sitters. Ruth has been facilitating social skill groups and individual sessions for children as director of the Pennsylvania location for the past ten years and in the New Jersey location for the past two years. Beth and Ruth have been successfully using their education, personal experience, and passion in children's social development for over a decade. They found that children were not applying the social skills they had learned into school and community settings. There were few programs dealing with socialization that accommodated children on many different interactive levels. They developed a curriculum that was flexible and easily personalized for the specific needs of each child. This insight has evolved into The Wanna Play Program.Ruth Herron Ross and Beth Roberts have been successfully using The Wanna Play Program's techniques with children for over a decade. They have lectured in schools, parent support groups and conferences on the program's benefits and application. They have been training teachers, parents, professional and children on social skills as well as the methodology and teaching guidelines suggested in the program.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Welcome to the Wanna Play ProgramGuidelines for Curriculum SuccessHow to Use this BookSocial Interaction ChecklistUnit 1: Discovering Social SkillsLesson 1.1: What Are Social Skills?Lesson 1.2: Making New FriendsLesson 1.3: Building FriendshipsLesson 1.4: Relationships With Different Types of FriendsUnit 2: Using Appropriate Eye Contact for InteractionLesson 2.1: What Is Eye Contact?Lesson 2.2: Looking to TalkLesson 2.3: Looking to ListenLesson 2.4: Looking to LearnLesson 2.5: Interest in OthersUnit 3: Social Skills for Interacting With FriendsLesson 3.1: Fun With FriendsLesson 3.2: Sweet Words/ Kind WordsLesson 3.3: Safe Body/ Body SafetyLesson 3.4: Playing TogetherUnit 4: Appropriate Body BehaviorLesson 4.1: Introduction to Body AwarenessLesson 4.2: Body Needs--Strengths and WeaknessesLesson 4.3: Personal Play SpaceLesson 4.4: Body PrivacyLesson 4.5: Modesty/HygieneLesson 4.6: Appropriate Bodies in Different EnvironmentsUnit 5: Appropriate Emotional BehaviorLesson 5.1: What Are Emotions and How Do We Show Them?Lesson 5.2: Choosing How We ReactLesson 5.3: Staying Calm When We Don't Get AlongLesson 5.4: Appropriate Ways of Sharing Our EmotionsUnit 6: Appropriate Behavior in a GroupLesson 6.1: Listening in a GroupLesson 6.2: Socializing With Peers in a GroupLesson 6.3: Learning in a GroupLesson 6.4: Following Directions in GroupsUnit 7: Playing GamesLesson 7.1: Sportsmanship/Cheering and EncouragementLesson 7.2: Going FirstLesson 7.3: Who Won?Lesson 7.4: Playing Friends' GamesLesson 7.5: Outside GamesLesson 7.6: Indoor GamesAppendix A: Friendship CardsAppendix B: Worksheets and Materials

Review

"The overall attitude is fun, upbeat, and positive, as the guidelines stress the adults involved should be, and involves facilitated free play where the adult actively observes interactive play and looks for opportunities to offer prompts from the lessons and activities." -- Building Blocks, A Special Needs Magazine, December 2011

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"The overall attitude is fun, upbeat, and positive, as the guidelines stress the adults involved should be, and involves facilitated free play where the adult actively observes interactive play and looks for opportunities to offer prompts from the lessons and activities."

Details ISBN1412981131 Author Beth Roberts-Pacchione Publisher Corwin Press Language English ISBN-10 1412981131 ISBN-13 9781412981132 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Subtitle A Social Skills Program for Inclusive Settings Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States Affiliation Wanna Play Program Inc. DEWEY 372.82 Edition 2nd Illustrations Illustrations Short Title MAKING FRIENDS PREK-3 2/E Pages 221 Birth 1974 Replaces 9781412928045 Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Publication Date 2011-03-08 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2011-03-08 NZ Release Date 2011-03-08 US Release Date 2011-03-08 AU Release Date 2011-03-07 We've got this

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