Social Skills for Autistic Adolescents and Teens
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What is the purpose of today’s episode and the new website resources?
Hey everybody, this is Kari Clark from SpeechAndLanguageKids.com. You are listening to episode number 18 of the Speech and Language Kids podcast. This is the podcast with activities and resources for families of children with speech and language delays as well as the professionals who serve them. Today I will be discussing how to teach social skills to adolescents with autism and children with high functioning autism. But first, I would like to give you a little update on what's going on over on the website. Over at SpeechAndLanguageKids.com, I have started creating some new resource pages that I think are going to be really helpful for everyone. The first one I want to mention is the autism resource page that just went up this week.
And since this is a podcast about autism, I think it's very appropriate. So if you head over to SpeechAndLanguageKids.com slash autism, autism page. There's no spaces, no dashes, just speechandlanguagekids.com slash autism page. And that will take you over to a page that has all the resources that I have on autism put in one convenient place. So it talks about what is autism um what causes it just some basic information and then gives you links to all of the different therapy activities and resources that i have created about autism so head on over and check that out there's also one up about stuttering and cluttering that went up last week and there will be some new ones coming up every week hopefully for a little while so
If you are listening to this in the future, there may be some other ones over there. You can just go over to SpeechAndLanguageKids.com and then currently they are located on a little sidebar on the right side of the screen. What I'm hoping to do is, once I get enough of them, is to put those all on the homepage so that you can go to the homepage, Look and see what topic you're interested in and click on that topic and it'll take you to all the information. So I'm hoping to kind of redesign the website, make it a little easier to navigate. But that is the start of it. Autism page and the stuttering and cluttering page are up now. So head on over and check those out. But now on to the feature segment. So who are the kids we're talking about here?
We're talking about high-functioning kids with autism. This also includes the group of kids with Asperger's. I guess the current diagnostic manual that's coming out is leaning towards not calling autism. They're calling it all autism spectrum disorders. And what was traditionally referred to as Asperger's is just going to be considered high-functioning autism. It's just on the high-functioning end of the spectrum. But the kids that we're looking at right now are those kids who are... able to talk. So we're not talking about non-verbal autistic children. They have language skills. They're able to communicate, but they may not understand the social rules of conversation. They may not know the right words to say.
They may not know the right things to do. Their body language may be off. A lot of times these kids will describe themselves as wanting to have friends, but just having no clue how to do it. They may not have very many friends or they may have trouble keeping friends. And this is all related to those social interaction problems. Now, I do want to just say that some of these, the kiddos that I'm describing may not have autism or Asperger's. You can have social language problems without having autism and Asperger's. So this information is also relevant for kiddos who are having social problems due to the language part of it or the social interaction part of it, but that are not on the spectrum. Those are the kinds kids were looking at.
When I was going through creating this material, I had in mind teenagers, pre-teenagers, or older children. So anywhere in that range. You could do this with a younger child, say an early elementary school child. who had pretty good understanding of what was going on and was able to talk about these things with you. You just may need to simplify some of the concepts or change some of the social situations.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s episode and the new website resources?
0:00–4:09
2
Who are the adolescents and teens that need social‑skill therapy?
4:09–7:42
3
How do I decide which social skills to target for a specific child?
7:42–11:48
4
What does the research say about the most effective social‑skill interventions?
11:48–15:08
5
Which specific teaching strategies should I use (scripts, role‑play, reinforcement, etc.)?
15:08–18:11
6
How can I create and teach a social script for entering a group conversation?
18:11–22:11
7
What steps help move practice from the therapy room to natural environments?
22:11–27:22
8
How do I maintain and review social‑skill progress over time?
27:22–30:36