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# Trending News Using Evidence-Based Assessments to Identify Client Strengths and Improve Outcomes within the Home Setting
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ccupational therapists (OTs) are the specialists of choosing meaningful activities that support occupation. Home based therapists have unique opportunities to embed intervention within the individual’s daily routines. OTs can use several tools to assess a client’s strengths and areas of improvement. The Underlying Characteristics Checklist (UCC) and the
Interoception Assessment Forms are non-standardized assessments that focus on behavior, regulation, social understanding, and self awareness The UCC has speci c scales for adults with varying types of autism, and the Interoception Assessment Forms can be used with individuals with autism ages 5 thru adulthood. … Continued on page13…
Table of Contents 📖 ★ #Trending News….page 2, 13
★ EBP on Social Emotional Assessments
★ Inside this Box….page 3
and Outcome Measures (SSIS) and
★ Evidence-Based Research (EBP) on
(SRS-2)…..page 10-11
Social Emotional Skills….page 4-5 ★ The Country Music Game
★ Introspection Stix and How to Play….page 12
Directions….page 6-7 ★ Social Skills Workbook….page 8
★ Be a Certi ed Funtastic Box Therapist….page 14
★ Scenario Cards Directions….page 9
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Spotify! Write-On Pencil Case! Research says that Research pencil Scenario Cards! says that control is makes more important forthese practice better! Use handwriting legibility than how scenario cards to practice pencil grip. correlate to different life emotions scenarios. There are different levels Spell N Catch! Children withgrade it for this game, and you can ADHD, learning disabilities (LD), up/down! dyspraxia, and developmental coordination disorder (DCD) Young Social Skills Workbook! learn better they can adults with when autism spectrum move and (ASD) experience sensory for all disorder are preparing input same time. at home, kindsatofthe social situations
school, in the community, and in the Wipe-off Executive workplace. Use this workbook to Functioning Worksheets! Theinto practice scenarios and insight best to improve executive howway to communicate. functioning (EF) in children with ADHD, ADD, DCD, and The LD isbest to way Introspection Stix! target specific brain into skillsothers during to improve insight needed for learning! socializing, is to first have insight
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Social Emotional Skills
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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)*
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): is a process that helps children acquire skills for life. These skills include: developing positive relationships, behaving ethically, and handling challenging situations.*** The goal of SEL is to help children recognize and manage emotions, think about their feelings and actions, and regulate their behavior based on thoughtful decision making.**
SEL has 5 Competencie
1. Self Awareness: 1) identify ones
emotions. 2) maintain self-con dence and self-ef cacy.
2. Self Management: 1) regulate
emotions. 2) cope with stress. 3) mange impulses. 4) set goals.
3. Social Awareness: 1) understand social cues. 2) empathy. 3) understand cultural norms.
4. Relationship Skills: 1) establish and
maintain relationships. 2) resolve con ict. 3) resist peer pressure. 4) work cooperatively
5. Responsible Decision Making: 1)
accurately identify and evaluate problems. 2) make decisions based on ethical and social norms. 3) consider context when decision making.
SEL interventions help to develop positive relationships, ethical behavior, and how to handle challenging situations e ectively. Strategies that foster SEL help children to recognize and manage emotions, think about their feelings and how they should act, and regulate behavior based on thoughtful decision making skills.***
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Research studies found that these social emotional interventions****…
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likes as a way to interact with others. Practice social skills in a familiar and natural environment. Complete activities that require cooperation and communication
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PRACTICE AND TRAIN IN A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITY FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS
Embedding social emotional learning activities into daily routines helps individuals excel in their engagement in school, home, community, and work activities*
…were the most successful at improving social interactions, emotional recognitions, and peer relationships…
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How to play The Country Music Game! We created The Country Music Game just for you to use in your sessions :) This game incorporates evidence-based research recommendations for effective social emotional interventions***…
✅ Engage in a cooperative task
Listen to the songs on the playlist while you play this game! FUN!!!
✅ Include and foster client interests and likes ✅ Easily played in a natural environment (home setting) ✅ Select an activity focused intervention ✅ Incorporate multi-sensory components The Country Music Game Playlist on Spotify Click Here or Scan to Listen to the Playlist!
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Rules for The Country Music Game
Let The Music Play! Listen to the songs, and guess who sings it! You can use the cards to match the song and say it out loud! . Another way to play is to pause the song within the rst 10 seconds… shuf e the playlist to keep it unpredictable!
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Social Emotional Problem Solving! s l l i k S l k a i o c o So o rkb W
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We love! www.Do2Learn.com This website contains evidence based resources to help teachers, parents, and other professionals implement activities and guidance on how to improve social, emotional, employment, organizational, and communication skills. We selected Scenario Cards for your intervention sessions because it works on improving several skills that are needed for participation in occupation…
Use the activities in this workbook to improve social communication skills.
Research Topics from Do2Learn.com… An Evolution of Virtual Reality Training Designs for Children • with Autism and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder • Video Enhanced VR for Teaching Restaurant Social Skills to • Children with Autism (PowerPoint • Brief Report: Two Case Studies Using Virtual Reality as a • Learning Tool for Autistic Children • Developing Virtual Reality Instruction for Autism Report • • Computer Language Games for Autism •
Some topics include: Appropriate Topics of Conversation, Starting Conversations, Reciprocal Conversations, Staying on Topic, For more go to… Respecting the https://do2learn.com/organizationtools/SocialSkillsToolbox/index.htm Ideas of Others
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HOW TO PLAY AND USE SCENARIO CARDS Directions: 1. Determine how you will use these cards: In a receptive matching game? In a role-play guessing game? In discussions to enhance perspective-taking skills? 2. Remember that some scenarios may match more than one emotion! 3. Determine how many cards to present and to solve at once based on the needs of your client. 4. Increase the number of emotions and scenarios over time as clients demonstrate increased independence.
Take it one step further! Use the dry erase markers to color the emotion cards.
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Associating a color with a word or a feeling- helps a person to understand their emotions, process feelings, and create balance in their left and right side of the brain. Our emotions and the process in which we understand these feelings is a changing and fluid process. Allow your clients to change the color of an emotion or re-color the cards each session or every-so-often :)
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EVIDENCE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL OUTCOME MEASURES
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Effective intervention begins with utilizing an evidence-based outcome measure to assess the strengths and needs of a client. Outcome measures allow OTs to focus on an individual’s occupational performance Here are a few evidence-based outcome measures to assist with the evaluation of social emotional skills, intervention planning, goal setting, and tracking of overall progress over time. The SSIS Rating Scales and the SSIS-Social-Emotional Learning Editio (Greshman & Elliot,2008; 2017
- Available for purchase.at www.pearsonassessments.com
- Assess the 5 competencies of social emotional skills.
- For ages 3 years to 18 years old
- The SIS-Rating Scales has an autism spectrum speci c subscale.
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- Easy accessible online les and testing.
- Ages 4 years to 18 years old.
- Available in kit and online forms
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Introspection Stix! Introspection is the examination of one’s own mental and emotional processes. The best way to know about one’s self is to ask questions and think inwardly. This is not always an easy skill, and it takes some practice for everyone. Thats why we created Introspection Stix! The practice of introspection helps an individual gain insight into themselves, and as a result, they are better able to interpret and decode the emotions of others during communication and interactions. This is especially helpful for anyone who wants to improve their self awareness, socialization skills, and self-regulation skills.
How to Play Use the Introspection Stix one on one, in a group, or among family members to improve socialization, connection, and insight and awareness into one's own beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. Pull one stix and read the question to another, or answer it for yourself. You can even have everyone go around the table and answer the same or different stix. What is a game you would like Have Fun! to play with a friend/parent/or sibling?
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Selecting assessments to help guide invention is key for intervention effectiveness.Both of these assessments can help the therapist and the individual gain knowledge into which areas need improvement. This approach is clientcentered, and it can help to identify which areas the client nds meaningful. The UCC and the Interception Assessment Forms can be found at https:// www.AAPCautismbooks.c om/
Utilizing the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, fourth edition (OTPF-4), to document social-emotional interventions will communicate OTs distinct value in working with individuals with ASD across the lifespan.
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Love Fantastic Box!? We do too! Sign up on the FuntasticBox! Website to be a certi ed therapist *References: *Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (2011). What is SEL? Retrieved from: http://casel.org/ **Foster, L. (2013) Occupational Therapy’s Role in Mental Health Promotion, Prevention, & Intervention With Children & Youth Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). AOTA fact sheet, Retrieved from: https://www.aota.org/-/ media/Corporate/Files/Practice/Children/SchoolMHToolkit/Social-and-Emotional-Learning-InfoSheet.pdf ***Tomchek, S. D., & Koenig, K. P. (2016). Occupational therapy practice guidelines for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Bethesda, MD: AOTA Press, The American Occupational Therapy Association. ****Zins, J.E., Bloodworth, M.R., Weissberg, R.P., & Walberg, H.J. (2007). The scientific base linking social and emotional learning to school success, Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 17(2-3), 191-210. DOI: 10.1080/10474410701413145 Complete list of references are available upon request.
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