COVER -- Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND SOCIAL SKILLS -- 1.Overview of Asperger's Syndrome -- 2. Diagnostic and Assessment Issues -- 3.The Importance of Social Skills -- 4.Treatment Approaches -- 5. Introduction to the Model Program -- 6.Summing Up -- PART II THE PROGRAM -- 7.The Model Program -- Session 1:Greetings and getting to know you -- Session 2: Identifying emotions -- Session 3: Identifying facial expressions -- Session 4: Continuum of emotions -- Session 5:Tone of voice -- Session 6: Initiating conversations -- Session 7: Maintaining conversations:Basic conversational skills -- Session 8: Maintaining conversations: Responding to the emotions of others -- Session 9:Conversational skills:Phone skills -- Session 10: Manners and dinner outing -- 8. Supplemental Sessions -- Supplemental Session 1: Emotion collages -- Supplemental Session 2:Tone of voice movie clips -- Supplemental Session 3: Joining a group -- Supplemental Session 4: Being a good sport -- Supplemental Session 5:Personal space -- Supplemental Session 6:Friendship skills -- Supplemental Session 7:Perspective-taking -- Supplemental Session 8: Flexibility and adaptability -- Supplemental Session 9:Politeness -- Supplemental Session 10: Understanding sarcasm and figures of speech -- Adolescent Supplemental Session 1: Hanging out -- Adolescent Supplemental Session 2: School dances -- Adolescent Supplemental Session 3: Interviewing skills -- PART III FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND TO THIS RESOURCE -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.