08/21/2026
💜🩷Pathways Lab: Storybook to Strength | Social Skills in Action 💜🩷
This week, our students continued building functional social skills with a lesson on Personal Space & Boundaries!
Students worked through real-life scenarios involving personal belongings, hugs, phones, lunch lines, and recognizing when someone needs more space. We reinforced three simple but powerful responses:
🟢ASK FIRST — Before touching someone or their belongings.
🔵 GIVE SPACE — Notice body language and respect personal space.
🔴 STOP — When someone says “no” or “stop,” we stop.
Students were able to access the lesson at their individual level through written scenarios, visual sorting cards, hands-on participation, verbal responses, and communication supports.
These may seem like simple skills, but they are essential for self-advocacy, safety, healthy relationships, school, community life, and future employment.
Through DorAnn, Inc.’s Pathways Lab: Storybook to Strength, we’re creating opportunities for students of ALL abilities to learn skills they can use beyond the classroom.
📚 Learn it.
🧩 Practice it.
🗣️ Communicate it.
🌎 Use it in real life.
Because social skills are life skills. 💜
