How we work with our students if they don't remember something or aren't paying attention, how we encourage an environment where all our kids feel safe to participate and engage, how we support our kids who wait to be invited to play, and navigating pretend play.

I'm interviewing Lisa Mortensen, who is becoming licensed to teach our curriculum and is opening her own social club in Ohio this summer! Check it out at www.SpectrumSocial.org. We talk about her incredible neurodivergent family, her path to starting her own club, and her goals for the future of her students (and her own kids).

In this episode, I'm talking about students sharing examples of using what they have learned at Starfish Social Club, the difference between laughing at someone vs. something, how we handle kids getting upset with each other, what we do when kids don't want to participate, and talking about the social context.

In this episode we are talking about the strategies we use to help our students recognize they are complaining (and what to do instead), suggestions for kids with communication challenges, and how we support our autistic and ADHD kids as they support each other.

Ramiro and I are talking about the importance of teaching our autistic and ADHD students how to give and receive social feedback, what the most important natural social consequence is, and how we support kids with social anxiety.

Ramiro and I are talking about the goings-on in less than 2 hours with our students last week! We talk about why there's no such thing as doing things wrong when it comes to social skills, 'bad' kids, discussions about being popular vs. being kind, and a whole lot about asking questions to build our students' social awareness!