Participants will learn about two social skill curriculums that are currently on the market that have been used extensively with students with ASD of all ages.

One curriculum that will be discussed is Socially Savvy Curriculum (Ellis, J. T., and Almeida, C., 2014) which is designed to help educators and parents break down broad areas of social functioning into concrete skills. The included 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. The Socially Savvy Online Checklist, a companion to the Socially Savvy Curriculum will also be discussed.

The second curriculum that will be discussed in this session is Skillstreaming (McInnis, E. and Goldstein, A. P. ) is a highly acclaimed, evidence-based prosocial skills training program that builds social-emotional competence. It employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents. Each book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching a wide variety of prosocial skills. The Skillstreaming program is designed for preschool, elementary and secondary students.