Social Skills Training

For toddlers to tweens:

Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and Social-Communication Problems

Be a Friend Music CD

The Social Skills Picture Book

For high school into adulthood

Preparing for Life

Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond

Managing Challenging Behaviors

For toddlers to tweens:

No More Meltdowns

No More Meltdowns online tracker and smartphone app

Be a Friend Music CD

Managing Challenging Behaviors and Social Skills Training

For all ages:

Social Skills Training and Frustration Management DVD

No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior
By Dr. Jed Baker

It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home. Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult, but Dr. Baker can help!

Author of the award-winning Social Skills Picture Book series, Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers
strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. His 20+ years of experience working with children
on the autism spectrum, combined with his personal experiences raising his own children, have yielded
time-tested strategies, and results!

Dr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the
children in your life:

• Managing your own expectations
• Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment
• Understanding why a meltdown occurs
• Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns

Purchase an online subscription for $10.99 a year at the SymTrend site.

Download here for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or other touch-based smartphones, or search "No More Meltdowns" in your iTunes for download.

Positive strategies for managing and preventing out-of-control behavior: It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home. Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult. This website and mobile app can help!

Record behavior while it happens: Use a PC to enter behaviors and triggers online, or use an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or touch-based smartphone.

Produced in connection with SymTrend.com

Social skills training can be fun! Be A Friend features 16 original songs about making and maintaining friendships. To hear samples or purchase the CD, go to socialskillsmusic.com.

This book displays real pictures of children demonstrating over 27 different skills. It is meant for younger students who learn better by seeing skills than hearing an explanation of skills. See inside this book.

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Social Skills Training and Frustration Management
by Dr. Jed Baker

THIS PRODUCT IS A DVD

Running time: 4.5 hours

This dynamic presentation is extremely valuable to all family members and professionals working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders, learning disabilities, mood and anxiety disorders, and other issues that impact social-emotional functioning.

Menus help viewers access chapters on:

• Understanding the anxiety behind challenging behaviors rather than seeing it as simply a “discipline” problem
• Managing and preventing meltdowns
• Developing effective behavior plans
• Building an individual’s social skills in crucial areas such as conversation, conflict resolution, emotion management, employment, dating, etc.
  
• Creating peer acceptance

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Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and Social-Communication Problems, by Jed E. Baker

This comprehensive social skill manual has 70 skill lessons, behavior management strategies, and peer sensitivity lessons to be used at home or in school. See inside this book.

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Preparing for Life is a comprehensive guide for students and all those working with them to create plans to transition to adult life. Practical information on applying for college, vocational training, residential programs, and financial assistance is provided along with guidelines for helping students understand their strengths and challenges so they can advocate for themselves. The book contains over 70 skill lessons pertaining to friendship, dating, employment, transportation, finances and managing frustration and anxiety, allowing students to prepare for all aspects of adult life. This is truly the one book to help manage all aspects of the transition process.

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This fully illustrated book includes real photographs of teens and adults demonstrating many of the skills from Preparing for Life in picture form.