Publisher's Synopsis
Social Skills Games For Teens And Adults With Asperger´s SyndromeIn "Social Skills Games For Teens and Adults With Asperger´s Syndrome" you will find a set of 50 activities and games to work in groups with different objectives.What will you find in this book:
- In the first place, you will find activities whose purpose is to make the person with Asperger's understand the world and be able to relate to it.
- Second, you have in this book group activities to manage emotions. To the extent that a child or adolescent with Asperger's is able to do so, they will feel more capable of expressing themselves and explaining what affects them.
- Third, you can find in this book some dynamics to work on the difficulty of making friends.
- An essential skill for anyone is to develop imaginative and creative thinking. That is why in this book we have included four dynamics for this.
- In fifth place you will find activities to work on the management of social rules.
- People with Asperger's syndrome may have a hard time putting themselves in the other person's shoes and understanding what the other person is feeling. In this book you will therefore find activities to work on understanding non-verbal language.
- People with Asperger's syndrome are people of habit and very reluctant to change. In seventh place you have here some games to work the resistance to change.
- In eighth place you will find activities to work anger and states of frustration.
- In ninth place you have dynamics and games to work on hyperactivity or hypoactivity.
- In tenth place you will find activities to work motor skills.
- You also have activities to work on language comprehension.
- And finally, a dynamic to work on excessive worry.
In short, you take with this book 50 games and activities to work in a group with people with Asperger syndrome explained in a simple way and where you will know at the beginning of each dynamic the necessary materials, the duration and how many people it is designed for.
Sandra J. Rogers is a Spanish psychologist specializing in children and adolescents. She graduated from the Jaime I University of Castellón (Spain) in 2006.