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Curricular Adaptations for Children with Special Needs
SOCIAL SKILLS
1-10 scale for rating feelings
ABA
Acting
Adopt-a-Class
Adopt-a-Grandparent
Advocacy groups
Animal therapy
Arts enrichment
“Asperger’s, What Does it Mean to Me?” book
Attendance incentives
Attendance monitor
Bake sales
Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Birthday parties
Board games
Book buddies (possibly cross-age)
Book writing (across grade levels)
Boy/Girl Scouts
Buddy system
Building behavior finger play
Bullying programs
Business partnerships
Center time – dramatic play, cooperative play, parallel play
Character Ed. (7 pillars)
Character education books
Church
Circle of friends
Class meetings
Class pet
Classroom responsibilities
Clear thinking
Clover-Kids, pre 4-H program
Clubs
Cognitive behavioral counseling
“Comic Strip Conversations” book
Communication lab
Community based instruction
Community building
Community forum
Conflict bridge
Conversation/discussion group
Cooking group
Cooperative learning groups
Craft and art projects
Daily life skill encounters
Daily routine chart with built in social cues to force interaction
Dances
Direct social skills instruction – large and small group
Distance from aides
Earn playing with a friend and choice of activity
Earned chat time
Educating classmates
Errand runner
Extended day
Extra curricular activities
Facilitated peer practice
Field trips
Floor time
Football managers
Friendship groups
Game – Conversation start-ups
Game time
Games for taking turns
Garden
Grace and courtesy lesson
Have them do morning announcements
Having tea
"Hidden Curriculum" book
Hobby group/camp
I can solve problem activities
Identifying facial emotions- cards, video, boardmaker
Indoor recess social skills training
Job training
Job/responsibility
Jobs with staff to develop skills and friendships
Journals
Label classmates photos
Love & Logic
Lunch bunch
Match.com
Mentor program
“Mind Reading” software
Mix it up Day at lunch tables by birthday, color, etc.
Modeling
Morning meeting
Music
Music therapy
“Navigating the Social World” book
NSSRA/NWSRA Co-op groups
Numbered heads together
Office aide
Organized games at recess
Outdoor games
Outings
Outside agency groups – Play, social, floor time
P.E. buddies
Pass out snacks in class
Peaceable school
PECS
Peer buddies – cross age groups
Peer leadership groups
Peer tutors
Peers as experts for play
Pen pal
People PE
Pick a buddy/friend
Picnics
Play buddies
Play date
Playground opportunities
Playgroup partners
Positive peer groups
"Power Cards" book
Pre-teaching sports and recess games
Problem solver for “Dear Abby”
Problem solving
Project Achieve
Puppets
Random acts of kindness
Reading buddy
Recess buddies
Relationship Development Interventions (RDI)
Rent a friend
Reverse Inclusion
Role playing
Role playing to practice upcoming events and situations
Saturday night get-togethers (have parents rotate weeks)
School dances
School functions
School reading night
School reporter to interview people in school community
School store
School weatherman
Script Practice
Scripted activities
Self regulation programs
Service learning projects
Sharing MP3’s
Show and tell
Skill streaming
Social games that promote communication (The Un-game)
Social groups
Social mapping
Social networking (My space, facebook
Social scripting
Social skills, behavior mapping
"Social Skills Picture Book"
Social Stories
Special Olympics
Sports
STAR (stop, think, act, react)
Student council members
Study groups
“Super Skills” book
Support groups
Table grouping
Tea party
Teach appropriate social norms: hand shaking, door holding, greeting, personal
space
Teach Polly Nichols- University of IA
Teachable moments
Teacher/student relationship
Team building games
Team manager
Think/pair/share
“Thinking About You, Thinking About Me” book
Tolerance training
Tutoring
University shadows
Use of TV clips to teach emotions
Video taping correct social behavior
Videos of children interacting
Videos/films/ TV clips
Volunteering
Work in the school store
Write three of your attributes and let peers guess who
1-10 scale for rating feelings
ABA
Acting
Adopt-a-Class
Adopt-a-Grandparent
Advocacy groups
Animal therapy
Arts enrichment
“Asperger’s, What Does it Mean to Me?” book
Attendance incentives
Attendance monitor
Bake sales
Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Birthday parties
Board games
Book buddies (possibly cross-age)
Book writing (across grade levels)
Boy/Girl Scouts
Buddy system
Building behavior finger play
Bullying programs
Business partnerships
Center time – dramatic play, cooperative play, parallel play
Character Ed. (7 pillars)
Character education books
Church
Circle of friends
Class meetings
Class pet
Classroom responsibilities
Clear thinking
Clover-Kids, pre 4-H program
Clubs
Cognitive behavioral counseling
“Comic Strip Conversations” book
Communication lab
Community based instruction
Community building
Community forum
Conflict bridge
Conversation/discussion group
Cooking group
Cooperative learning groups
Craft and art projects
Daily life skill encounters
Daily routine chart with built in social cues to force interaction
Dances
Direct social skills instruction – large and small group
Distance from aides
Earn playing with a friend and choice of activity
Earned chat time
Educating classmates
Errand runner
Extended day
Extra curricular activities
Facilitated peer practice
Field trips
Floor time
Football managers
Friendship groups
Game – Conversation start-ups
Game time
Games for taking turns
Garden
Grace and courtesy lesson
Have them do morning announcements
Having tea
"Hidden Curriculum" book
Hobby group/camp
I can solve problem activities
Identifying facial emotions- cards, video, boardmaker
Indoor recess social skills training
Job training
Job/responsibility
Jobs with staff to develop skills and friendships
Journals
Label classmates photos
Love & Logic
Lunch bunch
Match.com
Mentor program
“Mind Reading” software
Mix it up Day at lunch tables by birthday, color, etc.
Modeling
Morning meeting
Music
Music therapy
“Navigating the Social World” book
NSSRA/NWSRA Co-op groups
Numbered heads together
Office aide
Organized games at recess
Outdoor games
Outings
Outside agency groups – Play, social, floor time
P.E. buddies
Pass out snacks in class
Peaceable school
PECS
Peer buddies – cross age groups
Peer leadership groups
Peer tutors
Peers as experts for play
Pen pal
People PE
Pick a buddy/friend
Picnics
Play buddies
Play date
Playground opportunities
Playgroup partners
Positive peer groups
"Power Cards" book
Pre-teaching sports and recess games
Problem solver for “Dear Abby”
Problem solving
Project Achieve
Puppets
Random acts of kindness
Reading buddy
Recess buddies
Relationship Development Interventions (RDI)
Rent a friend
Reverse Inclusion
Role playing
Role playing to practice upcoming events and situations
Saturday night get-togethers (have parents rotate weeks)
School dances
School functions
School reading night
School reporter to interview people in school community
School store
School weatherman
Script Practice
Scripted activities
Self regulation programs
Service learning projects
Sharing MP3’s
Show and tell
Skill streaming
Social games that promote communication (The Un-game)
Social groups
Social mapping
Social networking (My space, facebook
Social scripting
Social skills, behavior mapping
"Social Skills Picture Book"
Social Stories
Special Olympics
Sports
STAR (stop, think, act, react)
Student council members
Study groups
“Super Skills” book
Support groups
Table grouping
Tea party
Teach appropriate social norms: hand shaking, door holding, greeting, personal
space
Teach Polly Nichols- University of IA
Teachable moments
Teacher/student relationship
Team building games
Team manager
Think/pair/share
“Thinking About You, Thinking About Me” book
Tolerance training
Tutoring
University shadows
Use of TV clips to teach emotions
Video taping correct social behavior
Videos of children interacting
Videos/films/ TV clips
Volunteering
Work in the school store
Write three of your attributes and let peers guess who
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