2.2. Social Skills Reflection

People that have challenges with navigating the social world and often make mistakes in social situations can benefit from performing a social autopsy on the situation. This process involves guidance from an instructor to help a student look back at the social interaction and figure out what went wrong. Using the social autopsy worksheet provided, instructors can help students learn from their social mistakes, correct them and perform differently in future social situations. This approach is an explicit reflection strategy that works well for concrete learners that may struggle with abstract thinking.

The principles of Universal Design for Learning are incorporated into the variety of activities in this unit.

This unit will help some students to:

1. List the parts of a social autopsy for social skills improvement.
2. Demonstrate the steps of using a social autopsy to improve social skills in a practice scenario.
3. Apply a social autopsy  to a real life social error that has occurred.