Model Me Friendship

Models social skills involved in initiating and maintaining a friendship including: choosing friends, handling rejection, team sports, compromise, and more. Special chapter on peer sensitivity training to promote inclusion.

Peer sensitivity: It's not just about modifying the behavior of a child with ASD. It also takes sensitivity on the part of typical peers. We are developing a special section of scenes showing what peers can do to help create a more welcoming environment for children with differences in inclusion settings.

Proposed Topics Include:

1. Choose friend

2. Initiate

3. Handle Rejection

4. Conversation Starters

5. Team Sports

6. Maintain Friendship

7. Telephone Manners

8. Empathy

9. Compromise

10. PEER SENSITIVITY