Social Skills Curriculum Resources

For those who want extra teaching materials, Model Me Kids offers Teaching Manuals and Student Workbooks for use with its DVDs. These resources help teach social skills in a classroom, social skills group, at home, or other teaching setting, in conjunction with the Model Me Kids video modeling DVDs.

Teachers: Use to help build your social skills curriculum to teach and apply skills presented in the videos.

Parents: Use to structure home-based instruction and reinforce skills presented in the videos.

Samples pages from the Student Workbook are here.

Social Skills Curriculum Resources for Elementary, Middle, & High School

Each Teaching Manual contains the following:

Lesson plans for each of the DVD chapters

At-Home activity plans to help facilitate generalization beyond the classroom

Student progress charts to track mastery of skills

Sample letters to parents to promote continuity between classroom and home

Each Student Workbook contains the following

Social skills worksheets based on the lessons in the corresponding DVD

Social skills activities that support the lesson plans in the Teaching Manual

At-home reinforcement charts to promote parent involvement in skills

Custom illustrations of images directly from the video to reinforce concepts taught - check out a sample illustration

Social Skills Curriculum Resources Development Team

These resources are written by experienced educators who have used the Model Me Kids videos to teach social skills to children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome.
Meet our Resource Development Team

Recommended Companion Resources
Time for School, Time for a Playdate, I Can Do It!, Model Me Conversation Cues, Model Me Friendship (All sold separately).

Note: Non-reproducible materials. For teachers, it is recommended that you allow for one Student Workbook per student.

First to be released will be the social skills curriculum materials for Time for School in late July 2008.

Time for School™
Topics include: listen to the teacher, share, sit quietly, take turns, show interest in others, playground, & more.
Run Time: 61 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Kindergarten through 5th grade
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Time for a Playdate™
Topics include: greet friend, losing, answer, play his way, eye contact, clean up, say goodbye & more.
Run Time: 67 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Kindergarten through 5th grade
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I Can Do It!™
Models appropriate behavior in stressful situations, including waiting, transitions, birthday parties, handling criticism, & more.
Run Time: 53 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Kindergarten through 5th grade
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Model Me Conversation Cues®
Models nonverbal cues, how and when to start a conversation, maintain conversation, turn-taking in conversation, & more.
Run Time: 68 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Upper Elementary, Middle, & High School
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Model Me Friendship™
Models social skills involved in initiating and maintaining a friendship including: compromise, invite, handling rejection, team sports, empathy, and more.
Run Time: 75 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Upper Elementary, Middle, & High School
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Model Me Tips & Tricks™
Models social skills such as using tact, appropriate voice modulation, good hygiene, asking for help, sense of humor, and more.
Run Time: 67 min.
DVD plus free photo CD
For Upper Elementary, Middle, & High School
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Teaching Manuals and Student Workbooks
Extra teaching resources for each of the Model Me Kids DVDs: A Teaching Manual with lesson plans and progress charts. A student social skills workbook with worksheets and take-home materials.
Teachers: Use to build a social skills curriculum.
Parents: Use to structure home-based instruction and reinforce skills presented in the videos.
Sold separately from DVDs. read more