Inside Out: What Makes the Person with Social-cognitive Deficits Tick?

184 Pages·2002·0.49 MB·English

by  Michelle Garcia Winner

Inside Out
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Inside Out
What Makes the Person with Social-Cognitive
Deficits Tick?
Revised Edition
Michelle Garcia Winner
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
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ISBN-13: 978 1 84310 095 9
ISBN-10: 1 84310 095 9
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by
Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
Dedicated to Heidi, Robyn
and the students, families and teachers
I work with and continue to learn from
Contents
Introduction
Getting to this Point and Recognizing
the Power of Social-Cognition 11
Chapter 1
The “I LAUGH” Approach: Teaching Large Abstract
Concepts through Smaller Concrete Pieces 17
Chapter 2
Why Care? An Attempt to Answer
a Common Question 33
Chapter 3
Initiation: Let’s Get Started! 41
Chapter 4
Listening and Attention: Through our Eyes and Ears 51
Chapter 5
Abstract and Inferential Language: I Mean
what I Say but I don’t Say what I Mean! 57
Chapter 6
Understanding Perspective Taking: Thinking
about Others and how they Think about You! 79
Chapter 7
Gestalt Processing: Getting the Big Picture 115
Chapter 8
Humor: This is all too Serious to be
Taken Seriously! 149
Chapter 9
Thoughts on Reading Comprehension 157
Chapter 10
Thoughts on Observing a Student’s
Social Skills and Social Relatedness 161
Chapter 11
Teaching so our Teaching Sticks! Summary of Ten
Considerations for Applying Concepts Related to
Social-Cognition into our Therapeutic Group Work 165
Bibliography 179
Therapy Materials 182
Therapy Worksheets
Chapter 1 The “I LAUGH” Approach
Solving Problems before they Become Problems 22
The One Big Rule! 23
Learning about Social Thinking and how it Relates to You! 24
Chapter 2 Why Care?
Why Care? (For 5th graders and up) 35
Why should you Care about Others?
(For use with elementary school children) 38
Chapter 3 Initiation
Doing that Talking Thang! 50
Chapter 5 Abstract and Inferential Language
To Start to get to Know Someone… 65
Cool Comments for Cool Friends 68
Creating a Conversation 69
Once we have a Friend, we keep Friendly Files in our Head 70
Reviewing Types of Conversations 71
Chapter 6 Understanding Perspective Taking
Making Impressions 91
The Three Ways in which someone will Think about You,
and You about Them 92
Impressions for a Job Interview 93
What is a Social Relationship? 95
Thinking about Others who Live in my Home 96
People Think, I Think, You Think, They Think… 98
What do People Expect? 100
I Think, You Think (for elementary school-age kids) 101
Groups of People, Groups of Needs 103
Solving Problems before they Become Problems 104