How To Help Your Aspie Learn Social Skills: The 6 P’s To Social Skills Coaching For Parents

Success Starts Early: What We Can Learn From a 5-Year-Old's Social Skills

Groundbreaking research finds that the social skills a child exhibits in kindergarten are linked to their health outcomes in early adulthood.

Three Easy Ways to Build Your Child’s Social Skills at Home

Social skills are suffering now that children aren't getting to practice them at school or with friends. These tips can help build them up.

How I Used Action Figures to Improve My Son's Social Skills

My son is extremely sensitive and was getting upset easily at school. I didn't know what to do. Then I turned to his action figures.

Social Skills and Homeschooling: Myths and Facts

Why Social Skills and Manners Classes Matter

3 top reasons to enroll your child in a social-skills class.

Tips for Parents to Teach Social Skills in Children

Social and emotional skills are critical to our children’s success. Research shows that these skills can be learned and taught, and they can have an important impact on students’ ability to thrive in school and in life. While schools are beginning to recognize the importance of strong social and emotional skills, parents and other caregivers …

Tips to Teaching Social Skills When it Doesn't Come Easy

Teaching social skills is important in the growth and development of young children. So what happens when a child has difficulty making the connection?

4 tips on teaching emotional, social skills through craft

Teaching kids social and emotional skills is getting renewed attention, and arts and crafts are a good way to do that, at home as well as at school.

Why Access to Screens is Lowering Kid's Social Skills

Kids read emotions better after being deprived of electronic media

How Apps Can Support Your Child's Social Skills

Sometimes I think social skills apps are redundant, since iPads are themselves such social magnets. These tablets can motivate kids of all abilities to interact, and give them a common ground for communicating. But as social skills are multi-faceted,

Students with different learning abilities learn social skills together

Kids partake in a learning program that combines different ability levels, allowing the students to learn social skills from each other.

All Together Now: 7 Ways That Play Builds Social Skills

"Kids who play play well as adults. Kids who play build their confidence and learn the social skills that help them become happy, well-adjusted adults." That quote by KaBOOM! means a great deal to me because as a parent, I want my girls to grow up to be awesome adults. If you agree, consider how play teaches our kids seven social skills that help them get along with others, play nice, and succeed in life<br>Play Builds Empathy and Understanding<br>Children don't try…

5 social skills that you should start teaching your kid from an early age

It is a life skill that might be complex and confusing but rewarding for your growing kids.

Social skills 'key to start school'

Childcare workers urge more play in the early years after a survey suggests academic skills are less important than social skills for school readiness.

Building Social Skills, Alone at a Computer

A new online game purports to teach social and emotional skills to students, battling the ill effects of overexposure to technology.

Is the School Required to Provide Social Skills Training?

by Wrightslaw Social skill is not a “service” but a functional skill necessary for daily living activities. Your child’s IEP must include a description of her Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance. This means what her strengths and weaknesses are – both in academics and in functional areas like social skills. If your …

Early Communication Builds Language and Social Skills

Babies communicate through coos, crying and touching. The more parents and caregivers encourage early communication, the more children learn about expressing themselves.

Your Kindergartener’s Social Skills Matter More Than Their Academics

Assuming children are friends does not teach them social skills.

Many times I hear adults who work with children referring to a group of peers as friends. For example when two children start fighting over a toy, I often hear, “Be nice to your friend,” or “Your f…