Loren Svetvilas

How To Make a Friend Loren Svetvilas

Making friends can be especially tricky for neurodiverse children. Maintaining those friendships can be even trickier! This friendship manual is the perfect social skills guide for helping kids find, keep, troubleshoot, and even end friendships. Workspace is provided to collect notes through the process, identify safe adults to help with the friendship process, and space to reflect on what worked and what did not work along the way. Additions to this manual have been included to reflect social skills as it relates to Covid-19. Companion printables are available for free at the author's website, www. LookLookLearn.com. Loren Svetvilas is a veteran special education teacher, specializing in early childhood special education. He has worked with children aged birth to twenty-one, helping them and their families, teachers, and related service providers meet each child's unique needs. Social skills, behavior modification plans, toilet training, sleep training, pre-academic skills development, transitional life sills, "translating" standardized tests, play skills, coordinating speech, OT, PT, BVI providers' work into the daily schedule... Loren works to bring his experience to homes and classrooms of his students so they and those that work with them can succeed to the best of their ability. As Loren states, "Success is best achieved through the steps of many smaller successes. That's me - I'm one of those smaller steps at the beginning of that staircase!"Loren's first children's book, "Jackson: At School with my Special Teachers" is based on a former student's experiences in preschool with his therapists and itinerant special education teacher. (Jackson is now in college, and served as a contributor for the book.) Loren's illustrations appeared in a cookbook published by Young Adult Institute/NY League for adults with disabilities. He continues to publish daily cartoons under #MyDailyPendemic, maintains a storefront on TeachersPayTeachers, and works with a speech and language therapist on building literature-based activities for free at www. LookLookLearn.com. Loren is available for family and educator workshops by contacting him at Loren@LookLookLearn.com