Stanfield’s Circles Level 1 and 2 focus on teaching special needs students appropriate physical boundaries. Level 1: “First Step” is separated into two parts. The first explains the concept of “social distance.” Through video demonstrations and an enormous eight-foot by four-foot wall graph, students learn to “see” what the appropriate [...]
For many special needs individuals, understanding appropriate intimacy levels for different relationships is challenging. In many cases, the special needs person feels open and welcoming to nearly everyone they meet. As a result, feelings of rejection may occur, which they find bewildering, confusing and painful. The James Stanfield Publishing Company [...]
Due to the extraordinary popularity of our Circles Level 1 and Level 2 with parents, counselors, and educators, Stanfield has created two add-on programs for helping students protect themselves against abuse and STDs. These programs, “Circles: Stop Abuse” and “Circles: Safer Ways,” can be used as stand-alone programs, but are [...]
The James Stanfield Publishing Company is the country’s number-one publisher of social and family life education tools for children and young adults with mild to severe developmental disabilities. However, the success of our programs has meant that they’ve become extremely popular with counselors, teachers and parents of socially challenged “normal” [...]
