My students need games (checkers, jenga, connect four, etc) for Social Skills activity. Initiating and interacting with each other is a deficit which needs facilitation in order to develop independence.
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it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
The students lack social interaction and initiation. The need to be taught to work together as a group in order to develop their social competencies to exist and communicate with individuals functionally.
By teaching the the art of playing games, helps them to interact and initiate with each other.
Most of our students have the label of Autism, and are educated in an inner-city district.
They require basic social competencies taught to them, such as initiating, using appropriate language, working together as a group, and self reliance. They struggle with knowing what and how to interact, and will avoid contact with all individuals.
By showing them how to play board games, facilitating them, building their attending skills, watching, and observing each other, helps them develop strategies together, which will help build self confidence along with the ability to initiate with a peer(s).
They all have goals and objectives they must meet on a yearly basis, both socially and academically. With every grade level they move up, so do their social expectations.
My Project
These resources will be used to set up social skills groups. The groups will teach students on how to play games together, read and follow directions, and follow the rules to new games. This is being done in order to build social competencies in students who struggle with every day issues involving social interactions. Things such as how to use language appropriately, engage and initiate interactions, and build the self confidence to socially engage.
The board games will be used on a semi-daily basis, broken down into groups, which they will learn to ask a peer if they would like to play a game together, get the game, read and discuss the rules, set up the games, and play together, using eye contact, interaction and language to effectively have a meaningful, social conversational exchanges.
This project and its resources will help to build social competencies along with developing more social/pragmatic language.
At the present time we have made any social skills games together and will continue to do so, but would like to raise the bar and challenge them.
We have had great success facilitating our students in social situations, and the incorporation of board games into their daily activities, will allow them to gain access to more diverse social situation.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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