Social Skills: Cool Ideas for Cool Kids
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For professionals planning social-skills groups for pre-teens and teenagers, Lynn M. Dudek's recording connects games, movie discussions, and shared projects to specific communication goals, including listening to answers, considering another person's perspective, and planning around someone else's preferences.
Presenter biographies: Lynn M. Dudek, Michele LaMarche.
Michele LaMarche opens the session; Dudek leads the activity instruction. The scavenger-hunt example focuses on question appropriateness, gaining attention, and listening long enough to record an answer.
Movie examples examine characters' thoughts, visible cues, possible actions, and consequences; comic strip conversations distinguish thinking a request from speaking it aloud.
The caregiver party and surprise dinner trace shared decisions, task assignments, rehearsal, and debriefing across several weeks.
What does this recording cover?
- The scavenger hunt links question choice, attention-getting, waiting, and recording answers.
- Two Truths and a Lie explores perspective taking and includes simpler versions for younger children.
- Movie discussions examine characters' thinking, evidence for an interpretation, and possible consequences of actions.
- Comic strip conversations distinguish thoughts from spoken requests.
- Party, dinner, and garden projects organize communication around shared tasks and other people's preferences.
Recording context: The recording date is unavailable, and the transcript documents a failed video example and audience reports that Dudek's face was not visible during the game demonstration.
Three selected learner comments
The six-item evaluation mean was 4.06/5 across 11 complete responses, from 90 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.
Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results or a claim that these comments represent every learner.
Providing a list of resources to find more of these activities and to buy social skills games
Course evaluation response, 2023
This was a great training!
Course evaluation response, 2023
More visuals; the ability to correct things that didn't work when presented live (e.g., playing a video example) so that those of us watching weeks/months/years later can get the presentation without original technical glitches
Course evaluation response, 2023
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Meet the Presenters
Lynn M. Dudek is the Autism and Medical Rehabilitation Manager at Easter Seals Central and SE Ohio, Inc. and the owner of ASDSLP, LLC. She is a speech-language pathologist who has specialized in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder for close to 20 years. Lynn has presented at the local, state, and national level on topics regarding autism, communication and assessment. Her passion for advocacy, education, and effective treatment directs her professional and personal activities.
Lynn recently completed coursework for completion of her BCBA. She currently serves on the Ohio Autism Coalition, the Autism Alliance and Advisory Board for speechpathology.com, and the National Autism Spokesperson Network.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
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