Difficulty with social skills is one of the biggest issues faced by people with ADHD and those on the Autism Spectrum. Here’s a booklist to make it easier! (See below)
- Conversationally Speaking by Alan Garner
- Growing Friendships: A Kids Guide to Making and Keeping Friends by Eilleen Kennedy-Moore
- How to be a friend by Laurie Krasney Brown and Marc Brown
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- I Can’t Believe You Said That! by Julia Cook
- Improve Your Social Skills by Daniel Wendler
- It’s So Much Work to Be Your Friend… by Richard Levoie
- People Skills by Robert Bolton
- Should I or Shouldn’t I – Game
- Skills Training for Children with Behavior Disorders by Bloomquist
- Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child by Ellen McGinnis
- Social Skill Training: For Children and Adolescent… by Jed Baker
- Socially Curious and Curiously Social…. by Michelle Garcia Winner & Pamela Crooke
- Teaching Social Skills to Youth by Tom Dowd and Jeff Tierney
- The Science of Making Friends by Elizabeth Laugeson
- The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching play, Emotion, and Communication to Children with Autism by Jed Baker
- The Unwritten rules of Friendship Natalie Madorsky-Elman and Eileen Kennedy-Moore
The above booklist was suggested by multiple professionals from the NEFESH organization of Orthodox Jewish Mental Health Professionals.