Goal: Navigate Disagreements with Peers
Sample Goal:
Client will navigate a disagreement with a peer by completing the following steps on at least 4 of 5 observed opportunities, with visual cues and adult verbal support as needed: listen to what everyone wants, brainstorm potential solutions, find out why each person wants what they want, choose a solution that everyone accepts.
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Therapy Phases:
- Answer Questions about Social Story: After listening to a social story about navigating disagreements, client will answer comprehension questions about the steps for navigating a disagreement with at least 80% accuracy.
- Role Play: Client will role play through navigating a staged disagreement by completing the following steps with another person on at least 4 of 5 observed opportunities, using visual cues as needed. Steps to Navigating a Disagreement: listen to what everyone wants, brainstorm potential solutions, find out why each person wants what they want, choose a solution that everyone accepts.
- Navigate a Real Disagreement: Client will navigate a disagreement with a peer by completing the following steps on at least 4 of 5 observed opportunities, with visual cues and adult verbal support as needed: listen to what everyone wants, brainstorm potential solutions, find out why each person wants what they want, choose a solution that everyone accepts.
What’s Next?
- This is a skill that most children with continue to need to work on throughout their lives. Even as adults we sometimes need to hire a mediator to help us navigate disagreements. You can continue to support a client is using this skill throughout his/her daily life by providing the visual steps or posting them in common spaces and being available to be a mediator when needed. It’s important for children to feel like they have safe adults in their lives that they can go to when they need help with disagreements.
Supplemental Materials
Here are some other resources that may help you when working on this skill:
Replacing Challenging Behaviors with Communication
Additional resources for helping children who are exhibiting challenging behaviors due to communication delays.
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