Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism Using Minecraft (R)

This comprehensive and accessible guide contains everything that needs to be known inorder to set up and run a Minecraft® Social Group for children with autism spectrumdisorders.Minecraft®, often described as 'digital Lego', provides an ideal forum to help children withautism and related conditions to develop social and communication skills. This book offersguidance on how to use the game to support the learning of social and emotional conceptssuch as having a conversation, showing interest in others and understanding anotherperson's point of view.With over 150 pages of photocopiable and downloadable session plans, visuals andhandouts, this manual is essential reading for professionals working with autism who areinterested in introducing Minecraft® to support social skill development in their students.