About The Book
Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Pre-Vocational Training Manual for Ages 17+ includes more than 140 activities to promote success in the workplace and in the community. The AASIP Pre-Vocational Training Program provides a comprehensive yet practical approach to teaching social communication skills needed in the workplace and across the life span to individuals with moderate to high functioning autism spectrum disorder and other diagnoses that result in social communication deficits. The book brings added value by including activities that address three additional core clusters of skills: personal development, social skills for life, and daily living.
The Pre-Vocational Training Program has been described as “unique and fresh” and approaches vocational training with a primary focus on the social skills needed to be effective in the workplace. Topics presented in this program include sexting-texting and TMI (too much information), workplace idioms, social white lies, shades of “no”, the workplace bully, and unwritten rules of society.
These engaging activities, which include interactive videos, deviate from the typical approach to teaching by challenging the participants to explore, develop rules, and generate strategies. This approach takes into consideration their unique strengths and learning styles. Our teen and young adult participants are left asking for more.
This program, while developed for speech-language pathologists, can also be easily used by high school and college counselors, special educators, job coaches, and parents who express an interest in this type of program.
The AASIP program offers three additional books for children ages 4-9, 10-12, and the teen years.
- Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Therapy Manual Targeting Social Skills in Children 4-9
- Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Therapy Manual Targeting Social Skills in Children 10-12
- Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Therapy Manual Targeting Social Skills in Teens
About The Authors
Pamela Wiley, PhD, CCC-SLP, has forty years of experience having worked numerous years with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Dr. Wiley is an ASHA certified, licensed speech-language pathologist and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She has been in private practice for thirty-five years and worked in the public school setting as an itinerant SLP and teacher consultant for the severe oral language handicap programs. Dr. Wiley is the president and founder of the Los Angeles Speech and Language Therapy Center, Inc. Her center offers a range of services, including speech and language services, social skills programs, summer speech and drama camps, early intervention programs, preschool for typically developing children, homework helpers’ lab, and her newest program–a pre-vocational social skills training program for teens and young adults with ASD.
Betholyn F. Gentry, PhD, CCC-SLP, has more than thirty-five years of experience conducting research and making presentations to state, regional, and national organizations on social skills therapy for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist and has been the director of the Pragmatics Groups on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for twenty-five years, where social skills therapy is provided to children diagnosed with ASD. Dr. Gentry is a professor in the audiology and speech pathology department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and she has received Honors of the Association from the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Table Of Contents
List of Videos
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Unit I. Personal Skills Development
Chapter 1. Autism: The Label
- Lesson 1: Autism Through My Eyes
Lesson 2: Overcoming the Odds
Lesson 3: Building the Dream
Chapter 2. Character Development
- Lesson 1: Self-Esteem
Lesson 2: Honesty, Integrity, Commitment
Lesson 3: Tools for Happiness
Chapter 3. Mind, Body, Soul Connection
- Lesson 1: Stress
Lesson 2: Physical Activity
Lesson 3: Giving Back
Lesson 4: Hygiene
Unit II. Vocational Development
Chapter 4. Making a Good First Impression
- Lesson 1: The Resume
Lesson 2: Rules of Engagement
Lesson 3: Acing the Interview
Chapter 5: Social Skills in the Workplace
- Lesson 1: Workplace Culture
Lesson 2: Workplace Idioms
Lesson 3: Workplace Conversation
Chapter 6. Shades of No
- Lesson 1: Emphatic
Lesson 2: Implied
Lesson 3: Nonverbal
Chapter 7. Workplace Advocacy
- Lesson 1: Asking for a Raise
Lesson 2: The Employee Handbook
Lesson 3: Stand Your Ground
Lesson 4: Dealing with a Bully
Unit III. Social Skills For Life
Chapter 8. Relationships
- Lesson 1: Friends Versus Acquaintances Versus Coworkers
Lesson 2: Sexting, Texting, Social Media
Lesson 3: TMI: Cyber Dangers
Chapter 9. Body Talk
- Lesson 1: Your Face and You
Lesson 2: Inflection
Lesson 3: Body Language
Chapter 10. Pulling It All Together
- Lesson 1: New Social Situations
Lesson 2: Keeping it Going
Lesson 3: Time and Tone
Chapter 11. Being the Best Me
- Lesson 1: Welcoming Change
Lesson 2: Theory of Mind
Lesson 3: Unwritten Rules
Unit IV. Daily Living Skills
Chapter 12. Exploring Your Options
- Lesson 1: Leaving the Nest
Lesson 2: Executive Functioning
Lesson 3: Personal Success
Chapter 13. Safety Awareness
- Lesson 1: Law Enforcement and You
Lesson 2: General Safety Concerns
Lesson 3: Safety in Relationships
Chapter 14. Money Matters
- Lesson 1: Money Relations
Lesson 2: Budgeting
Lesson 3: Credit
Appendix A. Sample Data Tracking Form 1
Appendix B. Sample Data Tracking Form 2
References
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