Teaching Social Skills to Students with Autism

• Learn at your own pace.
• Enroll at any time.
• You can complete your courses as fast as necessary but generally completion is within 4 to 5 months.
• You must have earned a bachelor’s degree if registering for credit.

Making friends and understanding social situations come naturally to most people. Our friends and family relationships are often the most fulfilling aspects of our lives. However, our students with autism find the world of social relationships confusing and frightening. Children with autism need to learn specific rules to navigate social relationships, make good choices in friends and understand the “silent” language of facial gestures, intonation and posture. In this course, you will learn how to teach students with autism to build positive relationships and to use the 10 Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships explained by Dr. Temple Grandin and Sean Barron on a daily basis. The interventions learned in this class will improve student motivation, mental well-being, self-esteem and quality of life, resulting in increased academic achievement. Students will develop important social skills that will serve them throughout their lifetimes. They will learn how to build and maintain long-lasting friendships and learn how to interact appropriately in a variety of social settings at home, work, school and in their communities.