Social Skills: Guides (14-21 Years)

9th Planet produces engaging social skill modeling videos and ready-to-use teaching plans for ASD teens and young adults. Lessons use a story thread about a young man (Tad Shy) from the 9th Planet who is learning social skills on this planet.

Teaching plans include include role play, improvisation, social stories and student production activities. Lessons may be used in individual or small group formats.

A young man on the Spectrum is the key actor and editor on the videos. Topics include a wide range of social skills, including personal space, empathetic listening and recognizing false friends.

Videos are produced by a creative team of teaching, animation and production professionals.

Three apps that are targeted specifically for the tween/teen, displayed in a graphic novel format. The apps focus on self-esteem, confidence, good friends vs. bad friends and family life.

This guide was published to help older teens and young adults gain more self-determination putting them on their way to becoming self-advocates.

The guide covers several subjects like discovering good leisure activities, finding strengths and challenges and how to use them effectively, managing health care, and independent living skills.

To read the guide, click here.

This app can create custom social stories for a student on the go. The stories can be locked, so they can’t be changed. The user can add their own photos and videos.