SOCIAL SKILL LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION

Why Generalization

Students who receive special education services often learn skills in isolation or outside of the natural environment relative to the skill. In order for the skill to have a meaningful impact on the student’s life and be sustained over time, it is critical for students to be taught how to use the skill in a way that it can transfer across environments, situations, people, and be used in multiple ways. 

Social Skill Inventory

Lesson Plans

For each of the 10 social skill domains in VOISS, there are five lesson plan samples to support the social skill needs of a student exhibiting those specific characteristics. Educators can run keyword searches to find samples for their individual students.

National and State Standards

The VOISS Domains have been aligned to national and state standards in social skills. This interactive aspect of VOISS Advisor allows any educator to understand how the various domains support teaching and learning efforts in social skills.

IEP Goals

Each social skill domain in VOISS has a classroom story, or case study student who exhibits characteristics of someone who struggles with social skills in that domain. In this section of VOISS, we have summarized all of the IEP goals being addressed across VOISS, per social skill domain.

Evidence-Based Practices

Explore instructional methods, generalization tactics, and instructional supports that you can use to help educators facilitate student generalization of learned social skills into the classroom.

VOISS

The VOISS app offers educators, students, and their families 140 social skill scenarios that teach knowledge and understanding of 10 Social Skill Domains and 183 unique social skills. VOISS is a virtual reality learning experience that features a number of support for students, educators, and families to further learn and apply social skills in the classroom and greater school setting.

Progress Monitoring

The VOISS Advisor Progress Monitoring tool is the teacher’s portal into student VOISS virtual reality progress and skill attainment. Teachers can see which of the social skill domains and skills are being learned and practiced, how fast the student is moving through, how accurate their responses are, how many attempts they need to complete each scenario and how their progress matches up to the expectation the teacher established for progress to be made.

Classroom Stories

These classroom stories are case study examples of students who struggle with specific social skills within ten social skill domains. Each classroom story includes an overview of the student, their learning strengths and needs, their teacher’s perspectives, and five lesson plans that demonstrate the practice and generalization of skills learned in virtual reality into physical classrooms.