The Social Skills Picture Book. Jed Baker

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      Foreword

      After the publication of the

      Social Skills Picture Book

      (Baker, 2001), I received many calls and emails from families and teachers

      telling me that their students seemed highly motivated and interested in learning from the pictures. This feedback was certainly what I

      had hoped for, as it had been my experience with the students with whom I had worked. Then I began to receive more and more calls

      and emails asking if I could put together a similar picture book for older students.

      Although many teens liked looking at the pictures in the previous publication (which depicts mostly elementary-aged children), the

      teens could not easily relate to those younger students. Thus I began to make picture books for older, high school students, using the

      more sophisticated situations that these students often face, including peer conflicts, dating, employment, and classroom situations.

      I sincerely wish for you and your teens to have fun using these picture books and making your own. To build the desire to

      socialize, lessons must be enjoyable. For more information on skill lessons for high school students and ideas to make lessons fun,

      the interested reader might also want to read

      Preparing for Life: The Complete Guide to Transitioning to Adulthood for those with

      Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome

      (Baker, 2005). That book contains over seventy written skill lessons. A subset of those skills has been

      depicted here in picture form to create the

      Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond

      .

      PART ONE

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      The Autism Spectrum and the Importance of Visual Aids

      Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders

      Autism Spectrum Disorders

      (also known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders) constitute a wide range of symptoms that affect

      an individual’s sensory, cognitive, motor, language, and social-emotional development. Asperger’s Syndrome, autism, and Pervasive

      Developmental

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