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Welcome to our blog Social Steps. Join us as we explore the social world. The most recent entry is directly below. To read previous entries click on the Categories button on the sidebar. We’ve provided links to blogs we find interesting and informative under Blogs We Read.
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Evelyn and Lisa
Challenging Behavior
May 29, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking
Working with students with behavioral issues is always a challenge.
Diary of a Social Detective
April 12, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking•Predicting/Making Smart Guesses•Nonverbal Language
I recently came across a wonderful book, Diary of a Social Detective by Jeffrey Jessum.
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Making Predictions
March 19, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking•Predicting/Making Smart Guesses
We don’t use crystal balls to make predictions. We look at the contextual cues and use our knowledge and memory of what has happened before
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Thinking Out Loud
March 8, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking
We’ve been asking our parents to ‘think out loud’.
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Getting Organized
February 5, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Study Skills/Organization•School Age•Resources
As parents we have to pick and choose our battles. Schoolwork was always one of those battlegrounds in my house.
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Silly Bandz and other Fads
January 29, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking•School Age•A Parents View
I’m in and out of my car all day long as I go from one appointment to the next. So I listen to the radio a lot. I heard an interesting piece yesterday.
Text Me
January 19, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking
Text Messages. BBM’s. IM’s. IChats. Emails.
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Can’t you pay attention?
January 8, 2011 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking•School Age
How many times have we seen our kids playing a video game or doing something they are interested in and remarked, “He pays attention when he wants to.”
Having Fun with the Kids
December 29, 2010 by Lisa Freeman
Posted in•Social Thinking•School Age•Early Childhood
The holidays are over and all the presents have been unwrapped.
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