Counseling: Social Skills Needs Assessment
Teachers: When a child is lagging in social skills, there may be an impact on a
student’s school functioning. This checklist is adapted from Dr. Ross Greene’s
Assessment of Lagging Skills & Unsolved Problems. This information will help
us target the specific needs of students in your class for small groups. Please
turn this in to your counselor.
Teacher:_______________________ Student:_________________________
LAGGING SKILLS:
1.
Difficulty maintaining focus
2.
Difficulty considering the likely
outcomes or consequences of
actions (impulsive)
3.
Difficulty managing emotional
responses to frustration
4.
Difficulty starting conversations,
entering groups, connecting with
people/lacking other basic social
skills
5.
Difficulty appreciating how his/her
behavior is affecting other people
6.
Difficulty talking at appropriate
times (impulsive)
7.
Difficulty handling disappointment/
losing at a game/not coming in
first/not being first in line (specify)
Rarely
Sometimes
Often Almost
Always
Comments: _____________________________________________________
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