Stanfield’s Living With Others library helps your students understand how showing consideration for others can improve their own lives. Program 2 in this three-volume series is entitled “Being With People.” “Being With People” contains eight videotapes that teach students over 100 essential people skills.

The “Being With People” program includes strategies for proper behaviors when meeting people, sharing duties, assigning chores, sharing space, respecting privacy, showing appreciation and apologizing. Guidance is provided on establishing loyalty and trust, being a team player, caring for common areas, and sharing expenses. Comedic illustrations demonstrate the different responses to complaining versus agreeing, and demanding versus compromising.

The concept of social distance is introduced, as are the appropriate levels of intimacy for friends versus acquaintances. An overview of public manners versus private manners is provided. Finally, simple social graces are highlighted, including how to ask for a date, accept an invitation, or tactfully refuse.

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“Becoming MoneySmart” focuses on financial fitness strategies for independence. MoneySmart 1 and 2 each contain three parts and come with complete teacher’s guides. MoneySmart 1 has three chapters, the first of which is “How to Avoid Compulsive Shopping.” This chapter teaches the basics of comparison shopping, tips on developing the self-control to wait until desired objects go on sale, how to verify a return policy, and more.

Chapter 2 teaches the life-long benefits of avoiding spendthrift behaviors, including ways to control credit card spending, looking for bulk discounts, and tips for using coupons and rebates. Chapter 3 teaches students shopping strategies that can save them enormous headaches, like limiting products to those of major brands and how to resist high-pressure sales tactics.

MoneySmart 2 teaches students how to avoid financial pitfalls. Lessons are included that teach students how to build a blow-out-proof budget, how to avoid being tricked by shady practices (including TV scams), and how to be safe while shopping.

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Attribution theory helps children take personal responsibility for their actions–both those that are positive and those that are negative. For our teachers who like working with attribution theory, we present our “Making It!” videotape program, which puts the power of attribution theory to work for you in teaching social skills to your students.

“Making It!” includes two video programs, two teacher’s guides, and “The Social Solution Game,” which reinforces for your students the concepts they learn. Part 1 is entitled “Making the Effort.” Here, students are shown how to take charge of their lives and succeed as a result. Clear examples are given showing the effectiveness of making an effort. 75 unique behaviors are demonstrated for applying the lessons learned in students’ own lives.

Part 2 is entitled, “Getting Along with Others.” Here students are shown how to make positive first impressions and build relationships that grow and deepen over time. Students see why some social relationships fail while others thrive. Over 75 clear actions are demonstrated which can help individuals build strong and lasting interpersonal relationships.

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Working 1 is designed for students with mild developmental disabilities. It teaches the importance of finding the right job and how they can prove to employers that they’re the right candidate. Once the job is secured, students are taught about the critical importance of being on time, making sure one understands exactly what it is they’re supposed to do, and the attributes of a “quality worker” in the eyes of the employer.

Working 2 is designed for students with moderate developmental disabilities. This tape was created following five years of research by the University of Oregon. Specific techniques are taught in Working 2 to optimize the success potential of people with moderate developmental and learning disabilities. Emphasis in this tape is on communication skills and how they differ when talking to a supervisor versus when talking to co-workers.

Working 1 contains six videotapes and a teacher’s guide. Working 2 contains four videotapes, a teacher’s guide, and a TICE (Test of Interpersonal Competence for Employment).

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First Impressions teaches the four basic elements involved in making a good impression. These are hygiene, grooming, dress and attitude. Each is given equal attention.

Students see that a bad first impression can end in a number of unpleasant ways, including social withdrawal, loss of the opportunity to prove oneself at a job, and romantic disinterest from others. They learn that by paying attention to each of the four elements, chances are lessened that they’ll be undervalued at first glance, and they’ll have a higher chance to prove themselves.

Modules 1 and 2 focus on the unique hygiene requirements for men and women. Module 2 features gender-specific tips on grooming, including “mistake-proof” tips for applying makeup and nail polish for women and the fundamentals of shaving and nail care for men.

Module 3 concentrates on dressing for success. Students receive firm guidelines for creating “mistake proof” wardrobes for both men and women, and special dressing issues are addressed for overweight and wheelchair-bound individuals.

The final module concentrates on body language, tone of voice, good manners, displaying a humble demeanor and non-verbal ways to demonstrate responsibility.

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The Big 11, in ranked order, are 1) trustworthiness, 2) cooperativeness/ability to be a team player, 3) presenting an appropriate appearance, 4) have active listening skills, 5) demonstrate appropriate behavior, 6) is responsible/perseveres, 7) has self-esteem, 8 ) is customer friendly, 9) works with diversity (tolerant), 10) uses appropriate language and 11) self-manages. Our six-module series, containing 18 videotapes, will illustrate the importance of all these behaviors to your students and show them the right ways to demonstrate to employers that they have them all.

The techniques used in the First Job Survival Skills are SCANS based. The fundamental purpose of SCANS (the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) is to create high-skill, high-wage employment opportunities for all students. We worked closely with the SCANS models to optimize the employ-ability quotient of all students–developmentally disabled and otherwise.

Stanfield is the country’s leading publisher of behavior management, social skills and special education teaching materials.

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LifeFacts 1 focuses on human intimate relationships and features two complete kits so teachers can decide for themselves which level of explicitness is appropriate for their students and community. LifeFacts 2 teaches essential self-protection skills against abuse. LifeFacts 3 helps your students understand the risks of AIDS and how to prevent it and other STDs.

LifeFacts 4 educates students on how to manage their emotions, so that they can avoid depression and enjoy healthier, happier relationships. LifeFacts 4 includes guidance on using the four-step C.A.L.M. approach to recognizing, identifying and managing strong feelings. LifeFacts 5 helps students avoid being exploited by financial, physical, social and emotional manipulators.

LifeFacts 6 teaches students about the facts of substance and alcohol abuse, with special emphasis on empowerment techniques for refusal and abstinence. LifeFacts 7 teaches students 22 basic but highly important lessons about health and safety so that they can live more independent lives.

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Stanfield publishes over 60 research-based programs. Our social skills programs are available in editions appropriate for individual age groups and cognitive abilities. For conflict management, our BeCool series is designed to have maximum impact at every grade level. BeCool teaches positive self-talk and assertiveness training and helps kids learn self-control. BeCool is the number one conflict management program in America and is taught in thousands of schools across the United States.

We also have a number of programs designed to help young adults manage the transition from school to work. Our Transitions curriculum is the most popular of its kind. Other popular videos for helping students “make the switch” include the Stanfield “First Job Survival Series,” “LifeSmart,” “Living With Others,” and “First Impressions.”

Family Life education for special needs is a sensitive subject. Again, Stanfield is the leader. Stanfield publishes “Life Horizons,” an extensive video library that focuses on family planning and intimate behaviors for adults with cognitive abilities, and also “Life Facts,” a slide version of the same. To help your students understand the complexities of social distance, we offer our “Circles” library, which helps students understand the mysteries of intimacy and helps students know who to trust.

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Stay tuned for the release of our new Fitting In series!
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Module 1, “It’s Not What You Say, It’s the Way That You Say It!” will focus on voice tone and intensity, facial expressions, and appropriate versus inappropriate gestures. Module 2, “It’s Not What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It!” will demonstrate appropriate social distances, touch, body language, appearance, and measurable attentiveness. Module 3, “Little Things Mean a Lot,” will list the top ten behaviors that are annoying, likeable, and make individuals “easy to live with.”

Module 4, “Getting Along,” will list the Ten Commandments of getting along with others, easy-to-remember rules of give and take, and how to deal with unpleasant people. Module 5, “How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable,” will demonstrate techniques for building rapport, explain “active listening,” and show what “don’t get personal” really means. Module 6, “Fitting In,” will explain the complex and subtle social behaviors that help improve first impressions and develop positive social relationships.

Stanfield is the #1 publisher of social and family life education tools for socially and cognitively challenged and/or developmentally disabled youth.

If you’d like to receive a catalog or speak to one of our highly trained staff, call 1-800-421-6534 or email maindesk@stanfield.com.

Stay tuned for the release of our new Fitting In series!
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In Circles: Stop Abuse Part 1, students are taught step-by-step strategies to avoid exploitation. Viewers are shown ways to recognize an abuser, and how, when, and to whom they should go for help. In Part 2, students are taught methodologies for protecting themselves.

In Circles: Safer Ways, students learn the best methods for avoiding STDs and its treatment in the event of contraction. This program goes into more detail regarding the difference between “casual” and “intimate” contact. Further, explanations about how STDs are transmitted–and how they’re not–is approached sensitively but frankly. The section on STDs, AIDS and Intimate Contact comes in two versions, so that teachers can choose the level that is most appropriate for their students.

The James Stanfield Publishing Company publishes a number of effective teaching tools for the developmentally disabled. In addition to the entire Circles series, we also publish the “Life Horizons” family planning series, the “Life Facts” series (slide versions), as well as “No-Go-Tell!” and friendly, non-threatening videos about not being afraid of gynecological exams, explaining the menstrual cycle to young women, videotapes on proper hygiene for males and females, and more.

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