Fun Club Pack - Department of Education and Training



This week’s skill: Asking for help

Young children with social skills difficulties often have trouble with asking for help, from parents, teachers, and peers. Some children do not know how to ask. Others are embarrassed at the attention they receive, while others think that asking for help = ‘being dumb’.

The results of not being able to ask for help include:

• Acting out as a means of gaining attention

• Falling behind in schoolwork

• Not understanding schoolwork

• Escalating frustration

• Not having needs met;

All of which can eventually result in significant levels of anxiety and stress. Asking for help, while seemingly a simple skill, is an essential one for your student to develop.

What your student learnt this week:

In this week’s session we identified some of the things that children might need to ask for help with at home and school:

a. Schoolwork too hard

b. Don’t understand what was said

c. Hurt

d. Can’t do up shoelaces

e. Lost toy

f. Can’t do homework

g. Being teased

Next, we identified the steps to follow in asking for help

In the CLASSROOM

1. THINK (I need help!)

2. HAND UP

3. ASK (use an asking phrase such as “Can you help me please?”)

In the PLAYGROUND/ at HOME

1. THINK (I need help!)

2. GO (to an adult)

3. ASK (use an asking phrase)

Supporting this skill at school

• Identify some of your student’s ‘difficult’ behaviours that may be inappropriate attempts to get help;

e.g. crying, hitting, poking, task refusal.

• Use visual supports in the classroom to help your student remember to use their new skills to ‘ask for help’ in these situations

• When your student appears to need help but does not ask for it (give them enough time to try again, but not so much that they become too frustrated) prompt them visually/verbally to ask for help

e.g. “That looks hard. Maybe you could practice asking for help”

• If necessary, set up a simple reward system to provide extra positive reinforcement for your student when they try to ask for help appropriately.

Asking for Help

In this week’s session we will identify some of the things that children

might need to ask for help with at home and at school:

a. Schoolwork too hard

b. Don’t understand what was said

c. Hurt

d. Can’t do up shoelaces

e. Lost toy

f. Can’t do homework

g. Being teased

Next, we will identify the steps to follow when asking for help

In the CLASSROOM

1. THINK (I need help!)

2. HAND UP (if the teacher does not notice go up to the teacher and wait for them to acknowledge)

3. ASK (use an asking phrase such as “Can you help me please?”)

In the PLAYGROUND/ at HOME

1. THINK (I need help!)

2. GO (to an adult)

3. ASK (use an asking phrase)

Read through the social story with the students.

• Get a student to read a page each.

• Read the story aloud as a group.

Fill in the workbook.

• Get the students as a group to come up with some answers to the questions in the work nook.

• Write the answers up on the board.

• Get the students to copy the answers into their workbooks.

Draw a picture.

• Discuss with the students what possible scenarios they might draw.

• Model a simple drawing on the board.

• For students who do not want to draw allow them to write down a scenario or dictate a scenario to an adult to write down for them.

Possible activities to reinforce the skills.

• Role Playing

• Puppet show

• Opening the jar lid (Have a jar with the lid on very tight. Get the students to practice asking for help with opening the jar).

This week’s skill: Asking for help

Young children with social skills difficulties often have trouble with asking for help, from parents, teachers, and peers. Some children do not know how to ask. Others are embarrassed at the attention they receive, while others think that asking for help = ‘being dumb’.

The results of not being able to ask for help include:

• Acting out as a means of gaining attention

• Falling behind in schoolwork

• Not understanding schoolwork

• Escalating frustration

• Not having needs met;

All of which can eventually result in significant levels of anxiety and stress. Asking for help while seemingly a simple skill is an essential one for your child to develop.

What your child learnt this week:

In this week’s session we identified some of the things that children might need to ask for help with at home and school:

h. Schoolwork too hard

i. Don’t understand what was said

j. Hurt

k. Can’t do up shoelaces

l. Lost toy

m. Can’t do homework

n. Being teased

Next, we identified the steps to follow in asking for help

In the CLASSROOM

4. THINK (I need help!)

5. HAND UP

6. ASK (use an asking phrase such as “Can you help me please?”)

In the PLAYGROUND/ at HOME

4. THINK (I need help!)

5. GO (to an adult)

6. ASK (use an asking phrase)

Supporting this skill at home

• Identify some of your child’s ‘difficult’ behaviours that may be inappropriate attempts to get help;

e.g. crying, screaming, hitting, poking, pulling.

• Prompt your child to use their new skills to ‘ask for help’ in these situations

• When your child appears to need help but does not ask for it (give them enough time to try again, but not so much that they become too frustrated) prompt them visually/verbally to ask for help

e.g. “That looks hard. Maybe you could practice asking for help”

• If necessary, set up a simple reward system to provide extra positive reinforcement for your child when they try to ask for help appropriately.

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Don’t forget to read the good ideas

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