Skill Streaming Social Skills Program Outline Information
 The importance of developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships is well documented.
Friendships serve to protect the individual from isolation and loneliness. Children diagnosed with ASD are at a greater risk of suffering from isolation and rejection from their peers.
Research suggests that social rejection during childhood increases the likelihood of mental health difficulties, such as depression, during adulthood. Fostering positive interactions with typically developing peers has been identified as an effective method of decreasing the likelihood of social isolation for children with ASD.
The Skill Streaming approach (McGinnis & Goldstein) is recommended. Skill Streaming is a psycho educational intervention that focuses on four direct instructional principles of learning to teach pro-social behaviors.
Learning Procedures Include:
v Modeling (Demonstrating the targeted behavior)
v Role playing (Practicing the targeted behavior)
v Feedback (Role play performance review)
v Transfer (Practicing the targeted skill in a natural environment)
These learning procedures are taught using the following steps:
v Define the skill
v Model the Skill
v Establish student skill need Select role-player
v Set up the role-play
v Conduct the role-play
v Provide performance feedback
v Assign skill homework
v Select next role-player
Skill Streaming skills are grouped into the following categories:
v Classroom Survival Skills
v Friendship-Making Skills
v Skills for dealing with feelings
v Skill Alternatives to Aggression
v Skills for Dealing with Stress
Program effectiveness will be measured using the following:
ü A teacher Skill Streaming checklist
ü A parent Skill Streaming checklist
ü A student Skill Streaming checklist
The first checklist will be completed by each party prior to program implementation and every ten weeks thereafter, unless otherwise indicated. Program progress will be graphed and measured against the baseline checklist.
v The following skill areas are examples of what may be targeted for your child:
v Classroom Survival Skills:
Ignoring Distractions
Setting a Goal
v Friendship-Making Skills:
Joining In
Playing a Game
Offering Help to a Classmate
Giving a Compliment
Suggesting an Activity
Sharing
Apologizing
v Skills for dealing with feelings:
Knowing Your Feelings
Expressing Your Feelings
Showing Understanding of Another's Feelings
Expressing Concern for Another
Dealing with Your Anger
Dealing with Another's Anger
Dealing with Fear
Rewarding Yourself
v Skill Alternatives to Aggression:
Using Self-Control
Responding to Teasing
Avoiding Trouble
Staying Out of Fights
Problem Solving
Accepting Consequences
Dealing with an Accusation
Negotiating
v Skills for Dealing with Stress:
Dealing with Boredom
Deciding What Caused a Problem
Making a Complaint
Answering a Complaint
Dealing with Losing
Being a Good Sport
Dealing with Being Left Out
Dealing with Embarrassment
Reacting to Failure
Accepting No
Dealing with Wanting Something That Isn't Yours
Being Honest
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