Synopsis
The FILTER Approach: Social Communication Skills for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders is a social skills curriculum workbook for use by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and professionals providing social skills training to students or individuals with high-functioning autism, social communication disorders, and/or social anxiety. The number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is growing at an alarming rate and parents report social skill deficits as their major concern. SLPs are faced with providing social communication language therapy to this growing population.
The author created this curriculum after verbal attempts to teach the concept of using a “social filter” to students with high-functioning autism. "He/She has no filter" is a common expression for a socially inappropriate or abrasive person. However, the connection between a literal and figurative filter makes little sense to high-functioning ASD students. Research and experience confirm the rote memory skills of children with high-functioning ASD and the workbook capitalizes on this to provide a simple, yet memorable tool for conversation. The F.I.L.T.E.R. curriculum first teaches the literal vs. figurative filter concept and then presents an acronym for connecting the concept to social skills that will help students before, during and after conversation.
F - Facial clues: look for information about how someone is feeling I - Inappropriate: avoid “red light” comments and topics L - Listen: tune in to the person talking and tune out distractions T - Target: are you hitting or missing the target in conversation? E - End the conversation (and start it) at the right time R - Repair mistakes made in conversation
School-based SLPs and school counselors will find this approach beneficial in explaining and then connecting the conversation filter to critical social skill areas. It provides ease of recall by using an acronym and contains a variety of activities for each social skill area: scenarios, theme-related idioms and expressions, if/then and self-reflection sections, and preview/review questions for each section.
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About the Author
Stephanie D. Sanders, MA, CCC-SLP, is an ASHA certified Speech/Language Pathologist (SLP) and the originator of The FILTER Approach: Social Communication Skills for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. She began her career in the Brevard County Public School System (Florida) in 1996 as an SLP. In addition to working in the public school system (15 years), she spent six years in private practice as an SLP for pediatric rehabilitation. The idea for this book grew out of her frustration when trying to explain the concept of a “conversation filter” to students labeled as “having no filter.” Her inspiration for this book is her younger brother with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and many of the students with whom she has worked that have consistently struggled to display appropriate social skills. Stephanie graduated from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, with a BS in Communicative Disorders (1996) and an MA in Communicative Disorders (2000). She and her husband are the proud parents of two elementary-aged children. Stephanie is active in the community, primarily in her local church.
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