Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs [Paperback]

A practical and hands-on collection of worksheets to help students learn social skills?

In the newly revised Third Edition of?Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, veteran educator Darlene Mannix delivers an invaluable and exciting collection of over?150?ready-to-use worksheets designed to help adolescents with special needs build social skills, understand themselves, and interact effectively with others.?

Organized into three parts, the book covers lessons in self-understanding and personality traits, basic social skills, and social skills application.?It also?contains:?

• 30% brand-new material?and thoroughly updated content that includes new lessons and technology updates?
• Updated topics, including safe social media navigation, leisure situation social skills, and cyberbullying?
• Stand-alone lessons and worksheets that?offer excellent foundations for individual teachings?

Perfect for special educators, general education teachers, and school counselors and psychologists,?Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs?is also?an indispensable resource for the parents of special needs children and teachers in training.?

About This Book iii

About the Author iii

Preface xv

Part I: Personality Traits: What Are You Like? 1

Chapter 1 Investigating Personality Traits 7

Skill 1: Identifying the Big Five Personality Traits 8

Worksheet 1: Are You Honest? 9

Worksheet 2: Are You Kind? 10

Worksheet 3: Are You Trustworthy? 12

Worksheet 4: Are You Friendly? 13

Worksheet 5: Are You Hardwolc*