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SPEAKER:Penina Rybak, MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH is a practicing, pediatric speech- language pathologist and educational technology consultant, who earned her master’s degree from New York University. She has been practicing for two decades, and has specialized in the treatment of young children with Autism/special needs, in home-based early intervention, center-based preschool intervention, self- contained school-age classrooms, and private practice. Penina participated in the 1995-2000 NY TRAID Project, in conjunction with the Westchester Institute of Human Development, which worked to integrate Apple™ technology into special education classrooms. She also spearheaded The Boardmaker™ Initiative, from 2008-2010, which worked on customizing curriculum needs and implementing behavior management strategies at a charter school in New York. It resulted in her launch of her Socially Speaking™ Social Skills Curriculum, seminars, iPad® App, and book. Penina lectures nationally and internationally, about customizing social communication strategies, the developmental integration of iPad Apps into treatment of Autism/Special Needs, and Early Childhood play based assessment and intervention. She advocates the use of an eclectic, multi-sensory treatment approach, using customized lesson plans involving toys and tech. For more information visit her website: www.sociallyspeakingLLC.com.
Learn practical, fun, developmental tips to: Foster compliance and self regulation Foster play skills development Foster specific social skills Foster Theory of Mind and cognition Integrate toys and tech (iOS apps) in
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“Einstein Never Used Flash Cards”By: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D. and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Ph.D
Developing Intelligence:The Hierarchy:
1. Cause& Effect 2. Conservation (quantity) 3. Inferencing a) Creativity b) Independent thinking 4. Self Concept a) Delayed gratification b) Social skills (pragmatics)
Imitation
Empathy
Self regulation (self monitoring behavior/repairing communication breakdowns)
The Importance of Play:Play fosters Self Concept, emotional engagement with others, and the ability to self regulate. It facilitates the child’s understanding of the environment (i.e.
the structure and routine, rules, and expectations of
Music is a crucial intervention tool for those who have difficulty with TOM and& pragmatics, resulting in difficulty recognizing/expressing feelings, and showing empathy.
Music facilitates self regulation. Music facilitates Emotional Attunement, through engaging the brain's ability to perceive tempo of feelings.
Music also facilitates Motoric Tempo through Body Awareness and Proprioception. It helps child with special needs perform time sequenced movements (rhythm), which can be an areaof real challenge regarding motor, play, & communication skills.
Expressing Feelings: Penina’s Pointers
FAQ: Why integrate drawing toys and apps?
Arts & Crafts facilitates Body Awareness andProprioception.
Art is a “whole body experience” using multi- sensory learning to build “muscle memory” through engaging The Five Senses.
Arts & Crafts facilitates episodic memory and subsequent recall of concepts/ideas.
1. Cause & Effect 2. Orientation to person/place/time 3. Communicative Intent 4. Delayed Gratification 5. Body Awareness 6. Transitioning 7. Inferencing and Causality through TOM (understanding how the world works, sequencing events, answering why? questions, and predicting outcomes)8. pre-literacy skills
Problem solving stems from having a Theory of Mind and being oriented to person/place/time. It incorporates the ability to access episodic memory re: feelings, and semantic memory re: past events of how things unfolded. It is the culmination of acquiring a diverse vocabulary, a sense of humor, and the ability to transition from being a “Me” to “We” as needed.
The Five Step Hierarchy1. Awareness that a problem exists, and why it exists 2. Verbalizing the problem to an adult instead of “acting out” 3. Exploring solutions/outcomes/options verbally and calmly 4. Verbal Negotiation to come to an agreement or compromise 5. Conflict Resolution & repairing communication breakdowns
Social Skills Kits: Lessons1. Feelings and How to Express Them 2. Verbal Rejection 3. Initiating Contact and Conversations 4. Turn Taking and Respecting Boundaries 5. Problem Solving
*This addendum handout is part of the Socially Speaking™ LLC Educational Seminar Series-Part II: Improving
Cognitive Based Language Skills for Social Skills Building for Young Children with Autism and Special Needs:
Going From Concrete to Abstract Learning
The Four
Cornerstones of
Social
Awareness:
Definitions and Implications
About Behavior and Pragmatic
Skills
Correlations to the
Socially
Speaking™
Curriculum Areas
Suggested Speech Therapy Goals
Based on the Socially Speaking™
Curriculum
Perspective
Taking
Putting oneself in another’s shoes (TOM)
Body Awareness 1. Increase body parts vocabulary2. Increase recognition of facial
expressions in self/ others3. Increase understanding of part-
whole relationships4. Increase inferencing skills
Flexible
Thinking
Accepting change, adapting to the environment, and being responsive to changes in routine and alternative outcomes
Orientation to person/place/time
1. Increase understanding of pronouns, spatial relationships, and time concepts (receptive language skills)
2. Increase understanding & use of wh? questions
3. Increase sequencing skills (will also help with transitioning)
Positive Self
Esteem
Having a “can do” attitude based upon having experienced repeated successes that start out small and concrete and becomes less tangible over time....forming the basis for accepting responsibility for one’s actions, taking risks, and being resilient (not contingent on verbal praise)
Expressing Feelings 1. Increase ability to express feelings more age appropriately
2. Increase verbal rejection skills3. Increase ability to verbally self
monitor and self evaluate performance
4. Increase understanding and use of humor (physical and linguistic)
5. Increase facial affect through imitation and oral-motor exercises
Motivation: Having sustained interest in exploring the environment, overcoming internal and external obstacles to work towards goals, broadening your “horizons” to learn new things and develop new interests about the world around you so that you can transition between being a “Me” and a “We”
Problem Solving 1. Increase ability to problem solve using The Five Step Hierarchy
2. Increase ability to initiate verbal greetings more age appropriately
3. Increase ability to maintain topic of conversation
4. Increase ability to ask questions more age appropriately re: prosody (intonation)
5. Increase Executive Functioning Skills (TBA)
Temple’s Take
Review: Which Materials to Use?
Verbal Rejection Difficulty is a Self Regulation Issue, due to the EF “Emotional Control”:
PECS: “no”, “stop sign” ASL/signing “bye” Verbal Speech: role play: “no”, “don’t want it”, “later” etc.
Social Initiation Difficulty is a Body Awareness Issue, due to SPD, requiring review of body parts and physical humor,
including exaggerated affect on the clinician’s face:
Greetings: toy phones, real cell phone calls Eye Contact: REPLAYS™, Mr. Potato Head™, arts&crafts Role play with sock puppets and googly eyes Inanimate Object Reference: Use Humor! Pretend to talk to
the object child wants and is looking at, instead of you
Respecting Boundaries Difficulty is a Body Awareness Issue, due to SPD and Reduced TOM, requiring physical activities, physical humor, visual supports, and exaggerated affect on the clinician’s face when giving constructive criticism:
Physical Activities: climbing stairs, trampoline, building forts Physical Humor & Visual Supports: REPLAYS™, YouTube™, Social Stories™
with correct/incorrect photos Construct Toys: Legos™, Tinker Toys™, peg & gear toys Inanimate Object Reference: Dycem™ and duct tape (markers)
Problem Solving Difficulty is an EF Issue With Flexibility and Metacognition, requiring moving from physical humor to linguistic, visual supports, role play, and the “Social Autopsy” using video footage of the actual student performing correctly and incorrectly in various settings:
Creating Obstacles: give puzzles & shape sorter missing pieces, give broken toys, pretend to misunderstand/ignore requests
Humor & Visual Supports: books, what’s funny? wrong? games Cooperative Play Toys: pretend tea party, blocks, board games The Socially Speaking™ Problem Solving Template