Product Review

Socially Savvy helps educators and parents break down broad areas of social functioning into concrete skills. The checklist pinpoints a child's specific strengths and challenges which in turn makes it possible to prioritize the skills most in need of intervention, develop strategies to address them, and track the effectiveness of those strategies. This manual includes targeted, play-based activities that foster the development of social skills critical to a joyful childhood and future academic success.

This manual: introduces the Socially Savvy Checklist and how to effectively integrate it; describes the 7 areas of social development in detail; provides skill-specific samples IEP objectives; offers detailed step-by-step teaching plans; includes 50 specific games and activities for teaching targeted social skills; offers specific ideas on progress assessment and data collection; and shares 2 case studies to illustrate the process from initial assessment to intervention and data collection.

The Appendices offer Lesson Plans for some of the targeted social skills, Visual Supports for activities and intervention strategies, and Social Stories for discussions of targeted social skills.

Socially Savvy is designed for all parties from the educator to the parent working with children in planned and naturally occurring opportunities to help develop these essential social skills. This manual serves as a resource to make both learning and teaching social skills a fun, rewarding experience.