developing social skills

✅ What, How & When to teach Social Skills
✅ Myths & Misunderstanding
✅ How to Make and Keep Friends
✅ Impact of Executive functioning
✅ 4 Steps to Create Social Skills Program
✅ Lived Experience of Social Learning
✅ Creating Inclusive Playground

✅ 3 Hours, 3 Lessons

✅ Online On-demand Course

✅ Transcript

✅ Certificate of Completion

✅ Handout includes Additional Helpful Tips

✅ Email questions directly to Sue Larkey

✅ 100% Money back – if, after the first two lessons, you decide the course is not for you

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✅ What, How & When to teach Social Skills
✅ Myths & Misunderstanding
✅ How to Make and Keep Friends
✅ Impact of Executive functioning
✅ 4 Steps to Create Social Skills Program
✅ Lived Experience of Social Learning
✅ Creating Inclusive Playground

Developing Social Skills to Support Neurodiverse Students with Sue Larkey – On-Demand Course

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✅ What to Teach, How to Teach, When to Teach: Ideas and Strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to promote student wellbeing.

✅ Improved Learning Outcomes: Two-thirds of students improve their performance and wellbeing with the addition of an SEL program.

🎉 SEL Secret: Discover the one thing about Social Emotional Learning and student wellbeing I wish I knew 20 years ago.

✅ Key Teaching Methods: Apply four strategies to teach students how to cope with losing, missing out, or not getting what they want, enhancing their overall wellbeing.

✅ Practical Tips: Gain useful advice for implementing SEL in the classroom to support student wellbeing.

✅ Learn from a Lived Experience: Gain useful insights and ideas to foster student wellbeing.

✅ 3 hours accreditation

PD, PL, VIT & TQI Accredited PD – 
Accredited PD in the priority area of Students/children with Disability addressing
Standard Descriptor(s) 4.1.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

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Course Modules

Module 1 (50mins)

Understanding Neurodiverse Learners

  • Learn the multiple learning styles for neurodiverse students to increase social awareness and skills
  • Apply the ACARA Framework to classroom practice
  • Learn and apply the Four Common Teaching Methods to teach Social and Emotional Learning
  • Understand how to differentiate your teaching strategies for a truly inclusive classroom experience.
  • Hear from a Lived Experience: Dean Beadle, as he shares his personal journey with Autism

Module 2 (43mins)

Communication and Conversation Skills

  • Differentiated Teaching: Learn how to tailor teaching strategies to support social skills management for students with neurodiversity.
  • Apply ACARA Framework Personal and Social Capability framework to focus on working collaboratively and making decisions to empower your students.
  • Utilize the Theory of the Six Stages of Play to identify and support your neurodiverse students’ collaboration skills.
  • Enhance Neurodiverse student’s development in the Personal and Social learning continuum.
  •  Key Social Skills to Consider: Delve into the crucial aspects of social skills, including body language, tone of voice, greetings, and more.

Module 3 (63mins)

Friendships, Playgrounds and Group Work

  • Promote Reasonable Adjustments & Strategies: Learn the importance of adjustments and teaching strategies for developing social awareness, decision-making, and social management in neurodiverse students.
  •  Six Stages of Friendship Development.
  • Understanding the Role of Friendships, turn-taking, and positive relationships in your classroom for diverse students.
  • Align your teaching with the Australian Disability Standards for Education 205 to ensure equal access and support.
  • Enrol your Community to develop and implement inclusive social and emotional adjustments for your students across all school environments.

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Loved learning different strategies to use with neurodiverse students who are struggling socially. Great games and activities
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Getting a deeper insight on ways to support our neurodiverse students.

Small but effective strategies that support ALL students as they develop

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The practical ideas which followed on from the theory.
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Brilliant. The stages of development – Play and friendships, strategies and resources.
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Reviews From Developing Social Skills Participants

How useful was the course? Would you recommend this course to others? How do you think this course has helped you?
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes It gives me some ideas on how to support some of my children with their social-/ communication- and friendship skills in a more relevant way. It made me ask myself different questions, which will lead to using strategies more appropriate/relevant to each individual child.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes I hope that I will be much more aware of social challenges children may face, especially at the beginning of the year.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes By clarifying stages of development as well as levels and types of support and teaching in connection to the Australian Curriculum.
Excellent Yes have a better understanding on how to teach my clients about friendship and positive relationships
Very Good Yes puling information together, learning about practical strategies to try and use
Very Good Yes Understanding each and every student as a unique individual so we can best help them develop their very own set of social knowledge
Good
Good Yes I have specific ideas to try with some of my clients - social scripts for friendships. I will also be making sure that I use all 4 methods of teaching social knowledge - Direct, Engineered, Incidental and activity based.
Excellent Yes It helped me reflect on what I am doing.
Excellent Yes
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Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes So many ideas to use with our kids. We are planning to get together as a staff to select some strategies to put in place for specific students. We would like to establish some clubs for recess and lunch times.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes Considering social knowledge rather than social skills.
Excellent Yes Insight into the need for direct teaching of social skills
Very Good By providing more insight into the inner thoughts and emotions of students on the spectrum
Very Good Yes Consolidated the workshop that I attended earlier in the year.
Excellent Yes Dealing with our diverse learners in social situations
Excellent Yes ideas to use for breaks, understanding communication needs
Excellent Yes Some revision of concepts. Some new ideas around strategies.
Excellent Yes Can see more from Autistic perspective
Excellent Yes Has given me a better understanding on how to help children learn social knowledge.
Excellent Yes Practical relevant activities for my classroom tomorrow.
Excellent Yes it provided so many practical strategies with great examples
Good Yes understanding the social knowledge or neurodivergent children
Good Yes
Very Good Yes more knowledge and useful tips
Excellent Yes Practical strategies for building social skills into everyday practice
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes being able to set up an social club (Working on a name)  for the students to enjoy that is not in the playgroup
Very Good Yes I have a lot of useful ideas to use with my students.
Very Good Yes Useful and practical ideas at a classroom and shool level.
Very Good Yes Definitely makes me rethink the role of teachers/teacher aides in supporting our neurodiverse students at playtimes.
Good Yes It gave me an insight into being neurodiverse.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes Strategies and research that are evidence based to cater for neurodiverse students.
Excellent Yes gave ideas/suggestion of what to do next for a child
Excellent Yes Yes
Very Good Yes Ideas to use to support students further and reiterated that some things already implemented we are on the right track.
Very Good Yes Given a new perspective on ND students. Also got lots of tips and ideas to try in my classroom. Just wish as teaches we have more time in our timetable for 'Social Skills/Knowledge' direct teaching. We aren't allowed to have 'Free Play' or devlopmental play, which I believe is so valuable. The new curriculum demands so much more time that there are less group work situations (more whole class) and less oportunity for teachable social moments.
Excellent Yes Opened up my mind to different ways that I can support all students with frienships
Excellent Yes it help me extend my vocabulary and ability to support LSO's and teachers and to help them think of other perspectives .It confirmed things that I believed but was not confident to ask others to reflect on.I like the explanations and whole class approach.
Very Good Yes
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Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes It has given me lots of practical tips and strategies to implement in my classroom and in the playground
Very Good Yes A more understanding of how Neurodiverse children think
Excellent Yes To know that we are on the right track with social skill groups.
Very Good Yes This course will assist me to be able to implement strategies with children to improve their social and emotional skills.
Good Yes Think laterally about diverse student needs.
Excellent Yes Better understanding in getting the whole community to be part of the program.
Good Yes this course has helped me with my work in the wellbeing centre
Very Good Yes Every time I do another course I learn so much more about understanding the wants and needs to support my student .The resources available and the ideas are very valuable.
Very Good Yes I like that it has practical ideas
Excellent Yes It has helped me by giving me ideas for both inside and outside the classroom
Excellent Yes I have many ideas to try with the children I work with
Very Good Yes
Very Good Yes As I said above it helped to show me things that our school are already doing well, but also some things we can do better. There is always room for improvement.
Very Good Yes yes
Excellent Yes It has given me a lot of ideas that i never thought of!
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes It has given me a much better understanding of the importance of social knowledge. I found the diagram of the stages of friendship very useful.
Very Good Yes Creating Inclusive Playgrounds and taking that learning back into my school, I plan to lead by example and create a club "bar" for students who need a quiet and chill zone - I'm thinking mindful colouring, soft relaxing music, lights off and a zone where talking is actually discouraged.  If I can find time I'll do a board games club too.
Excellent Yes
Very Good Yes This course has provided lots of ideas and tools to help students
Excellent Yes the resources have been helpful
Good No
Excellent Yes To see each child with individual needs and the uswefulness of 4 common teaching methods
Very Good Yes Increased awareness of the unseen feelings and things that may be impacting on the child's performance
Excellent Yes This course has given me much insight to the way neuro diverse people experience social situations. I see similarities working with young children as they are still learning 'social knowledge' & need guidance, explanations & support developing these skills & this course highlighted many of the specifics to consider.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes Given me ideas to support a childs social skill development.
Very Good Yes I think it's helped me to understand more about the social/emotional needs of neuro-diverse learners. But I think it also helped me to understand that the strategies that can be used to help these studenst will be beneficial for all students.
Excellent Yes It has given me strategies to embed in my everyday practices.
Very Good Yes Different strats for different children
Excellent Yes Micro games and the use of board games, game changer, simple and important to work on foundational supports around social skills and has other learning outcomes. The absolute importance of social skills
Excellent Yes equipped and inspired
Very Good Yes Whole class learning
Excellent Yes Assisted greatly with strategies to encourage friendships and inclusion
Excellent Yes Help my students with   ASD with relationships
Excellent Yes  Ging me lots of new language and ideas for small groups.
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes As a parent, more understanding about my ASD children and how teachers can implement strategies to assist them at school.
Very Good Yes as a school, we currently run lunchtime clubs, play support in the yard and a SEL group and this course gave me further ideas to support these programs as well as resources to seek out to aid us.
Excellent Yes by acknowledging what I have observed. I am going to meet the principal at my grandson's school today and I am going to recommend the school does this course.
Excellent Yes Reminded me of strategies I haven't used for a while, helped me to reflect on my practice and gave me practical ideas to implement.
Very Good Yes Having a better understanding of how Neurodiverse students feel and think.
Very Good Yes explained the varying needs of autistic students, understanding social knowledge, practical strategies to support autistic students
Excellent Yes It has helped me to understand many of the children in my class who have social needs and given me some wonderful ideas to help them but also insights into why they may behave the way they do.
Very Good Yes Improved understanding
Very Good Yes Drawing attention to apply information to neuro typical and neuro diverse people to ensure everyone is able to meet in the middle, rather than the neuro diverse people doing the heavy lifting.
Excellent Yes I have a better understanding needs for both NT and ND students. I loved the concept of meeting in the middle. Not just ND students stepping up to improve their social skills.
Excellent Yes More mindful of their needs
Excellent Yes seeing things from the perspective of the child with learning needs.
Very Good Yes identifying ways to help children settle more and feel safe
Excellent Yes
Good Yes
Excellent Yes To always consider that teaching social skills is as important as teaching acaedemic skills  To teach students to come up with a plan B if plan A doesn't work  To teach the next step on the friendship scale  To look at what clubs they can be in, or what activities they can do by themselves and to come up with a play plan.
Excellent Yes increased ideas for therapy
Very Good Yes Helped me to think about specific strategies for individual students.
Excellent Yes I have gained an immense amount of knowledge to begin my journey into developing social knowledge in my students.  This is a fantastic start with the many strategies and supports provided.
Excellent Yes It's helped me identify ways in which I can support my students further and implement strategies to support their social skills.
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes Continues to provide practical & relevant ideas & information to help me to understand & help with  the children in my care.
Excellent Yes Gave more knowledge and understanding
Excellent Yes This course presented many very useful and helpful practical ways of helping not only neurodiverse students but also neuro typical students.
Excellent Yes more of an understanding of the complexity of recess and lunchtime
Good Yes touched on things I have previously used and refreshed and updated my skills. This is essential for keeping me current as sometimes things changed and we forget how or why we do things.
Excellent Yes This course has helped me understand the balance between friendship and leadership with students who are neurodiverse learners
Excellent Yes this course will help me with a new students attending my school by trying to slowly work towards moving from the hello stage to the developing friendship stage.
Excellent Yes It has given me a greater understanding of some of the challenges neuro diverse students face.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes Being able to teach social skills to students who struggle making connections with others. Implementing strategies to help those students
Excellent Yes I will be more aware of how difficult and overwhelming it is to navigate friendships/social skills and to understand the importance of creating opportunities for all children to feel seen, heard and included. I love the 'party' analogy, as well. Brilliant course, Sue!
Excellent Yes It's given me a great proforma to use as I work on developing social knowledge with the children I work with. Excellent practical examples for activities and ways to develop an inclusive playground
Excellent Yes The course provided a variety of strategies to apply in the classroom and the playground.
Excellent Yes Helped me best cater for students on the spectrum
Excellent Yes Helped me best cater for students on the spectrum
Excellent Yes
Good Yes Gave me an insight into how students with ASD work
Good Yes
Excellent Yes Practical examples of activities to do with kids to teach social skills were really helpful
Very Good Yes Lots of ideas to try in the classrooms
Very Good Yes planning for goals for students
Excellent Yes Resources and strategies, 4 stages of teaching SEL
Good Yes practical tips
Excellent Yes It has empowered me to confidently support the social development of my students
Excellent Yes Strategies/activities that I can use straightaway.
Excellent Yes I can now share some information and strategies with my staff and look to create clubs!
Very Good Yes build on knowledge and strategies to support students
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes Knowledge based to draw upon. Strategies to implement.
Excellent Yes I think the key reinforcement throughout is the need for 'understanding' each child's uniqueness and the different ways to teach social skills (direct, engineered situations, incidental teaching, activity based instruction). Thank you!
Excellent Yes Reminded me of a few things and added new ideas
Excellent Yes
Good Yes
Excellent Yes It has helped me to look in a different prospective and understand thigs a different way.
Very Good Yes understanding socialising through different eyes.
Good No It gave me some good thinking points
Very Good Yes Ensuring that I also try to understand and listen to my ppts, and take slow steps rather than making them jump from one stage to the last stage
Good Yes
Excellent Yes Given me a clear understanding of Social Emotional Learning, inclusion activities for all chn , developing social skills.
Excellent Yes Has made me think about past and future children i work with. Big focus on understanding others and educating families
Very Good Yes It has given me a greater understanding of nerodiverse students and how to aid their social development.
Very Good Yes By teaching me how to help children.  How to understand their way of thinking.
Good Yes
Very Good Yes Better understanding of the perspective and needs of autistic people, practical tips to put into practice.
Excellent Yes practical on the ground support that I can implement.
Satisfactory
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes Lots of ideas to do group sessions on teaching children to play by using social videos, whole class approaches, understanding their friendship levels and I especially loved the recess/lunch bar ideas!
Very Good Yes Gained a deeper understanding on Neurodiverse students emotions
Excellent Yes I am new to teaching in a support unit class this year, after years of teaching in mainstream classes, so this course provided insight into my students with AUSD/ODD/ADHD social, sensory and emotional needs and how to better teach them.
Excellent Yes
Excellent Yes It will help me with my daughter and to better understand the children I work with.
Excellent Yes Confirmed what I am doing is helping.
Excellent Yes yes
Excellent Yes It has helped me to articulate student needs in a better way as I work with different teachers.
Excellent Yes It has made me think more broadly and has given me some new ideas to try with the kids.
Excellent Yes It has given me some further understanding of different ways of thinking and ideas for strategies to work on.
Very Good Yes Helped me find ways to include students on the playground
Excellent Yes Understanding how neurodiverse students process and learn.
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes Enormously, I found it a triggering as I reflected on my past. I think I'm on the spectrum🤣
Excellent Yes having the pauses to allow me to think through the information applying the information to the students that I teach
Excellent Yes It has given me lots to think about how to engage with the students to improve their social knowledge.
Excellent Yes Absolutely - The whole class focus strategy was great.
Excellent Yes given me some practical ways to include the teaching of social skills in a busy classroom
Good Yes really look at goals for child first, and identify games that we can play as family and with friends.
Good Yes Its given me a greater understanding of how to develop the social skills of kids with diverse needs. This is so important as en educator because social skills play a big role in students ability to learn and get along with others.
Excellent Yes
Very Good Yes Consolidation of knowledge.
Excellent Yes It has helped further y understanding, question myself/my role and my knowledge of both the process and what may or may not be available in the environment I work in. Also, it has enabled me to gain a better understanding and knowledge, along with a means to articulate what I've learned so that I may be able to use and pass onto others.
Very Good Yes Consolidated my understanding.
Excellent I learn something new every time I complete your courses
Excellent Yes Understand more about friendships and autistic children
Excellent Yes Immensely
Excellent Yes It has given me more understanding on this subject
Excellent Yes Better able to cater for student needs.
Excellent Yes It has helped me consider how to explicitly teach social skills to all children.
Excellent Yes Stepping more into the world of a neurodiverse child and getting more understanding of the challenges they may have and how to take these into account when planning social teaching opportunitities
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes The course has given me a great break down of what social knowledge is and better strategies and supports to use to teach it.
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes It made me aware of the different play and friendship stages and not to skip developmental steps.
Very Good Yes Taking a fresh look at the children I work with and having some new skills and tools to help. Dean Beadle was really invaluable to listen to.
Very Good Yes I am an SLP - some info in friendship development was helpful
Very Good Yes To understand children's development and how to best equip them with the best tools to social better among their peers
Very Good Yes
Very Good Yes Inspired me to advocate harder as an ES to utilizemy wellbeing time toward developing friendships and teaching social skills and social knowledge
Excellent Yes The information has again made you think about the students in my class. I feel our playground needs some change. Our library is a friendly area with games and still a quiet area when needed. We have activities in our learning centre, though we need outside more inviting and where their are things to do.
Excellent Yes This has got me thinking of ways to level the playing field for all students
Excellent Yes better understand my role and understand the students needs
Excellent Yes It has helped me gain a better understanding of neurodiverse children and their social needs/challenges.   It has helped to explore concrete ways to help these children navigate their social world and hopefully make real friends in ways that are comfortable for them.
Satisfactory Yes It gave me some practical tips and suggested some extra resources.
Excellent Yes Given me more to work on socially with my little neurodiverse student. It's also given me more strategies to work socially with the neurotypical students as well.
Excellent Yes It will help me in my everyday work load
Excellent Yes It has made me more aware that we all need friends.
Excellent Yes We all need a friend and how we can go about finding that special friend.
Very Good Yes Practical strategies to implement.
Very Good Yes Awareness of the social needs of neurodiverse students and how to help them
Very Good Yes Understanding our children in our kindergarten room.
Excellent Yes This course has helped me understand how my neurodiverse students social and what are their actual needs in the school environment.
Excellent Yes improving my knowledge and skills
Excellent Yes Greater awareness and insight to challenges faced by students. Many Strategies now to help improve their experience and development.
Excellent Yes Particularly in supporting my neuro diverse students to develop and maintain friendships and to better manage the playground.
Excellent Yes Support many of my neurotypical and non-neurotypical students.
Very Good Yes Take a step back and think more inclusive, how is that child coping, feeling, what do they need exactly. We do that to a point, but I feel like I need to do it more so.
Very Good Yes I'm a Therapist new to working in a school and looking at ways to deliver SEL groups, this has given me concepts to make sure I cover
Excellent Yes Made be think about our playground more
Excellent
Very Good Yes It has provided me with some useful activities to implement in my classroom
Excellent Yes it helped me to understand the why and to explain the why in different  ways of teaching my children
Excellent Yes I know how to explicitly teach communication skills to ADHD and neuro diverse student in my class and how to engineer and support another student to develop friendships.
Excellent Yes It has given me more perspective on students in my class who are neurodiverse, and to adapt my teaching to their needs
Excellent Yes Helped me to confirm that I am doing the 'right' thing in supporting neurodiverse students in my classroom. If anthing, that I should go more with what I think is 'right' and ignore what others may think. I forget how much knowledge I do already have about all of this and that I should be more confident in my knowledge and understanding and should stand by my practice in class/at school. Thank you!
Excellent Yes This course has helped broaden my understanding of how to differentiate for students who are neurodivergent.
Very Good Yes Ideas to try with my children
Excellent Yes Ideas  on what I can be doing to support diverse learners, skills and activities I can share with the TAs and content I can use to communicate with collegues.
Very Good Yes it has given me some useful strategies for a student that i work with.
Excellent Yes   i am more tuned in to childrens social needs and how to hep effectively.
Excellent Yes I am more aware of the challenges faced by children socially and how to begin to help
Satisfactory Yes
Excellent Yes It has refreshed and updated me with research the ACARA curriculum,  stages of play and the friendship pyramid. It has really helped me to reflect on my students and what I can do to support executive functioning, social emotional learning when I am tutoring them. It also touched my heart strings of beng a light for authentic inclusion and supporting my students who come to me for tutoring and for their parents who are on their own journeys wth neurodiversity. Thank you.
Excellent Yes Its brought things to my attention that I hadn't previously thought about, and its given me insights into how my children are processing what is happening in their day at school, and where there worries come from.
Excellent Yes I feel that i can now go away and develop some small scoial group and clubs to support our diverse learners.
Excellent Yes Increased understanding of Autistic learners view of the world and society which shapes their behaviour and social interaction
Excellent Yes Building confidence in my existing knowledge and broadening the knowledge I have and resources I can access to continue my professional development and better support student needs.
Very Good Yes It's a much clearer picture into the diverse brain and helps me relate to a particular boy in my class this year. Both his parents and I would like two things - to engage in learning and to make friendship connections
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes yes
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes Understanding stages of play and friendship pyramid  Ideas for clubs  different ways of teaching SEL - direct, engineered and incidental
Excellent Yes How to teach friendships and emotions to students
Very Good
Very Good Yes
Excellent Yes It has helped me to understand where my current students are at and how to best support them inside and outside of the classroom. Thank you!
Good Yes
Very Good Yes I will definitely start some lunchtime groups
Excellent Yes clarify how/ when /and who may need assistance with social skills.
Excellent Yes Gave me lots of ideas.
Very Good Yes better understanding, great tips
Very Good Yes Given me definition of executive functioning and examples to use in the classroom for all students.
Excellent Yes It helped me to understand children with diverse learning needs and offered me a range of practical strategies to implemented in my classroom.
Excellent Yes reminds me of things I need to work on with my students
Excellent Yes Ideas and strategies.  Greater awareness and insight into social and friendship challenges and the importance of teaching them.
Excellent Yes Lots of ideas and strategies.  Further insight into social emotional challenges and the need for awareness and teaching of social and friendship skills.
Very Good Yes Made me stop and think about ways to support friendship growth.
Excellent Yes Ensuring my son is supported in the playground at school
Excellent Yes structure of teaching social skills
Very Good
Excellent Yes I will definitely set up some clubs at my school
Very Good Yes It has given me a few new ideas to discuss with colleagues and hopefully implement.

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