We love Circles! The programs have been indispensable teaching tools for our Autism and DD programs – Barbara Tylenda
Teach your students two vital social skills:
1) Respecting Social Distance
2) Relationship Boundaries
Circles is a concrete, organizational paradigm for students with special needs that helps them learn to act and interact in self enhancing ways.
This national best seller features:
- VideoModeling so your students don’t have to learn the hard way!
- A simple multi-layer diagram to demonstrate different relationships
- Social boundaries, sexual distance, and relationship topics
- Our unique TOUCH, TALK, & TRUST model
- Teacher guides, 300 peel n stick icons, large laminated graph icons,
personal student graphs, & a giant teaching wall graph - And more!
Features:
- Teaches social distance & relationship building
- TOUCH, TALK, & TRUST model
- Teaches how intimacy levels change as relationships change
- Teaches how to recognize exploitative relationships
- Step by step dramatizations
- Helps your students “see” social boundaries
- And more!
If you like CIRCLES then you’ll love CIRCLES LEVEL 2 – Susan Simon
Features:
- Alternative Intimacy Level Signs
- Circle Jumping: when it’s OK and when it’s not!
- Reversal of Intimacy Level
- Rejecting Intimacy and Having Intimacy Rejected
- Relationship dissolutions
- And more!
Features:
- Teaches how to recognize exploitation
- Teaches how to react to exploitation
- Teaches how to avoid exploitation
- Teaches appropriate protective behaviors
- Includes 12 student stories
- Step by step lessons and strategies to recognize abusive behavior
- And more!
For many years Circles has provided the children and adolescents we serve a concrete way of understanding the abstract concepts of relationships and relationship safety – Barbara Tylenda