Growing GREEN InterActions-The Guide's Guide

Growing GREEN InterActions® is a comprehensive social skills program for those who have difficulty navigating social situations.How can we best educate those challenged by social interactions to be more polite, sensitive to others, and thoughtful in their actions? to take positive steps to connect with others by thinking before acting? make mutually beneficial decisions for their home, school, and friendship teams? communicate appropriately when interacting with others? be more G.R.E.E.N. (Grateful, Respectful, Empathetic, Easygoing, and Navigating)? Growing GREEN InterActions is the answer! Developed by Herb Hein, a speech-language pathologist with more than 40 years of clinical experience, this proven social skills program is comprehensive yet accessible for professionals and laypeople alike. The program teaches participants that they are members of teams, a concept engendering inclusiveness and respect for others. THE GUIDE'S GUIDE provides an overview of the program and is also a resource for the LESSON BOOK. The LESSON BOOK is a working manual with scripts and scenes for acting out realistic social situations and Wise Action Tools worksheets for analysis, assessment, and feedback. It also includes a set of Guiding GREEN Thoughts, which are a self-calming and concept-reinforcing tool, additional forms to encourage positive discussions and behavior, and program-specific music that encourages and reinforces team-centered social interactions. The Growing GREEN InterActions Program was developed and used in clinical practice and schools with tools and techniques that have been proven effective in working with challenged populations, such as elementary school children, middle schoolers, and older individuals who have social language needs. This comprehensive program includes books, a music CD, and manipulatives for speech-language pathologists, counselors, occupational therapists, and educators. Parents can also access the program directly by using the LESSON BOOK for day-to-day interactions and THE GUIDE'S GUIDE as a resource map. The terms Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions, a Social Literacy Program to Be Our Better Selves in a Better World, Guiding G.R.E.E.N. Thoughts, HeinSLP, Inc., and their associated logos are trademarks of Hein SLP, Inc. All rights reserved.