Visual Techniques for Developing Social Skills: Activities and Lesson Plans for Teaching Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome - Softcover

This book provides practical, hands-on strategies for teaching social skills to children with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome. For use in both general education and special education classrooms, each chapter includes a detailed description of the social deficits of these children and ways to address them. Such issues include difficulties with understanding idioms, taking turns in conversation, understanding tone of voice, and body language.

Rebecca Moyes, M.Ed. is a teacher, lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome. She is the author of Sensory World's Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors, published in 2010.