The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching Communication, Play and Emotion, Paperback/Jed Baker

Winner of an iParenting Media Award, this book uses photographs of students engaging in a variety of real-life social situations. The realistic format plays to the visual strengths of children with ASD to teach appropriate social behaviors. Color photographs illustrate the --right way-- and --wrong way-- to approach each situation and the positive/negative consequences of each. A facilitator (parent, teacher, etc.) is initially needed to explain each situation, and ask questions such as --What is happening in this picture?-- Children role-play skills until confident enough to practice them in real-life interactions.