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| Social Strategies |
Social Strategies are tools for enhancing social skill acquisition. They are written to describe social situations that may be new, difficult, or confusing to a child. Strategies are written to provide the child with a description of the events and reactions that might occur in a particular situation. Strategies may also remind the student of actions and reactions that are expected of him/her in social settings.
We may use teaching approaches such as
Power cards
Social stories
Visuals
Social Games
Comic strip conversations
Flow charts and check lists
Power cards
Power Cards are a tool for helping a child to change their thinking around a situation or to work on an unwanted, inappropriate behavior by capitalizing on an interest, person or character that has special meaning for the child.
A brief text or story that is related to the special interest, person or character is combined with an illustration and made into a small, portable card, such as a bookmark or business card, that the child can carry with him and refer to whenever necessary.
Visuals help support communication, particularly for learners who find receptive and expressive language difficult to process.
Here are some examples
An example of supporting sibling relationships using an ariel mermaid powercard
ASD Resources
EAL
Here are some helpful hints, tips and documents to aid you in supporting young people and children with English as an Additional Language.
EAL Hints and Tips for teachers
EAL Enrollment Plan: How to supporting the enrollment process
Stages of English Language Acquisition
Supporting EAL in the Early Stages
Support Request Meeting Dates
All support requests should be submitted electronically to a new shared mailbox: asnrequest@stirling.gov.uk
Support requests should be made using Child’s Plan Forms 1, and 2 or 3. We no longer require the relevant parts of form 7 as standard. If you have any other relevant paperwork from the GIRFEC Child’s Plan suite this can be included.
Please ensure Support Requests are sent to the mailbox in a zipped file. The file name must state the name of the child, and the team from whom support is being requested, e.g. asnsupportrequest.jbloggs.sebn
Please have submissions entered at least 1 week before the meeting date.
Provisional 2016/17 meeting dates are:
5th Sept 2016
3rd Oct
7th Nov
5th Dec
9th January 2017
6th February
6th March
18th April
15th May
12th June
For further guidance on Support Requests please see page in guidance and policies section of the site.
ASD Strategy
In November 2011 the Scottish Government launched a National Autism Strategy for Scotland and set out the national vision for autism services:
“that individuals on the autism spectrum are respected, accepted and valued by their communities and have confidence in services to treat them fairly so that they are able to have meaningful and satisfying lives”
The National Strategy provides a framework for implementation and makes 26 recommendations to improve the support available and quality of life of people with autism. It also cites 10 indicators for current best practice in the provision of autism services.
- A local Autism Strategy developed in co-operation with people across the autism spectrum
- Access to training and development to inform and improve understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) amongst professionals
- A process for ensuring a means of easy access to useful and practical information about ASD
- An ASD Training Plan to improve the knowledge and skills of those who work with people who have ASD
- A process for data collection which improves the reporting of how many people with ASD are receiving services and informs the planning of these services.
- A multi-agency care pathway for assessment, diagnosis and intervention and support
- A process for seeking stakeholder feedback to inform service improvement and encourage engagement
- Services that can demonstrate that service delivery is multi-agency and co-ordinated and targets the needs of people with autism
- Clear multi-agency procedures and plans to support individuals through major transitions at each important life-stage
- A self-evaluation framework to ensure best practice implementation and monitoring
In 2013 the Scottish Government commissioned a National Autism Mapping Project, a short-term fact finding and analysis exercise to build up a picture of autism service provision and provide information on autism co-ordination locally. The Autism Mapping Report for Stirling and Clackmannanshire presents a snapshot of our local situation and information was gathered through desktop research, focus groups and questionnaires. The report reflects the voice of stakeholders who attended the events and the information therein was used as a basis on which to carry out further research and stakeholder engagement.
The Scottish Strategy’s Menu of Interventions (2014) identifies the main difficulties and challenges that people with ASD commonly experience, follow the link to know more about these.
