1. Child Development Institute
Child Development Institute helps parents guide their children into being social. This website is useful to all parents. Since not all children develop the same way or rate, this site gives certain steps to parents to perform with their children to accomplish social relationship skills. Not only does the site emphasis tips to help, but provides books parents can purchase for further needed assistance. It is very true that, “there is nothing as painful as for a parent’s child to be rejected.”
2. The Development of Social Skills
http://www.incrediblehorizons.com/social-skills.htm
This website is geared toward those individuals who are suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or any other language disorder. The goal of this webiste is to assist these individuals in finding affordable and healthy solutions for their disability. This website provides various resources, and one link is especially geared toward social relationships. This link provides some simple yet important information that parents should consider about their child's social relationships. It states some important reasearch that supports the concept that individuals with disabilities do have deficient or ineffective social skills. It also describes a program called Social skill listening sound health, which is a CD that helps address skills in concentration, listening, thinking, productivity, relaxation and de-stressing. It also emphasizes the important role that parents play when it comes to their child's social relationships, and how they must reinforce these skills at home. They also provide some steps that parents can use when trying to teach their child social skills.
3. What Parents Would like Special Educators to know.
http://specialchildren.about.com/od/specialeducation/p/wanttoknow.htm
This page exhibits eight tips that parents send out to teachers that will help build their child with social relationship skills. Also helps by assuring the teacher that their child has your full family support and cooperation.
Great resources! The information you all provided, really shows how important it is for our individuals with special needs to learn social skills. www.childdevlopmentinfo.com I loved the website, because it is not only for individuals with disabilities it is for children at any social skill level. The resources are excellent for our children’s parents when they are facing behavioral social issues. Also, the website shows how important the role of the family is in social relationships
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you chose to tackle a topic that seems to be a difficult one. I enjoyed the second web link to the VAXA website. I felt that there was an abundance of information and suggestions that would be helpful for any family struggling with this issue. However, I did wish that the first website would include other age ranges than under the age of ten but I did feel that they have good ideas for playmates for children. As for the last website I feel that this is a great point of view to show educators, even though it seems a little aggressive but informative.
ReplyDeleteThe blog on about.com in regards to a parents view point on what they would like educators to know can be helpful to teachers. I believe that if a teacher was to read this, it just might bring them back down to “parenting earth” and remind them that truly the parent does know their child better then them. This blog allows for a teacher to self-check how their interactions/communication is with their student’s parents. If the teacher is open-minded then this blog will sure to be a good self check resource. I could see this being helpful when dealing with a parent who seems to always be against every decision that I made for their child in school. By just reading this and remembering that what they have to say is as important as what I have to say, it will help to develop a common ground. It will remind me that we both have the same goal in mind for the student; success. Both the child development institute and the incredible horizons websites had an abundance of helpful information on: social skills, elements of social skills, research and importance of social skills, and resources on building and reinforcing social skills. The two websites can be used for parents, teachers, or older children who want to learn about their disability. All of your websites provide great information on learning about and developing social skills.
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