Learning to be Buddies

(Following on from previous post)

A Social Story: When I want to play with Blocks
I like to build with blocks. But sometimes other children are playing with the blocks.I won’t get mad. I will just ask to play. 
I will look at the child who is playing with blocks. I will try to smile. I will say [...]

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Billy was building a road out of blocks.
“Hey, Billy! Can I play?” Tim said eagerly.
Billy smiled, “Sure, you can play!”
“What can I do?” Tim asked.
Billy pointed to the end of the road, giving Billy a toy car. “Just sit over there.”
“Okay!”  Tim said as he sat in the indicated space and started running his [...]

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Each of the following links will take you to a different website. 
Cooperative, confident and friendly: Enhancing the social skills of preschoolers
This is a great Pdf document that give some simple hints and tips when working with children with a range of different disabilities, including hearing impairments.  They first identify the challenges the child may face, [...]

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In the earlier years of teaching I was working with a young child who had a hearing impairment.  The child had hearing aids, was communicating with speech but was struggling socially.
One of the fallacies about children who have cochlea implants or hearing aids it that they will pick up sounds in the same way as [...]

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If you are a teacher, you have probably experienced working with a child whose behaviour has puzzled or frustrated you.  You seem to be constantly picking up and comforting children in their wake.  You have tried negotiation, reasoning, pleading, rules and rewards, ignoring, “I” statements, time out (oh dear) and the only result seems to be [...]

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