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This practical resource is packed with activities and games for developing self awareness and self esteem - an essential prerequisite to developing social skills. This book provides an excellent first step to any social skills programme.
Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties. Self-awareness and self-esteem is an essential prerequisite to developing social skills and so this book is an excellent first step to any social skills programme. This resources creates the foundation of the Talkabout heirachy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal comes before verbal, with assertiveness coming last. Resources include: an assessment framework planning and evaluation forms a three-term intervention plan for schools over 40 structured activity sessions focussing on self-awareness and self-esteem all the supplementary handouts and images needed to deliver the sessions. This second edition is presented with full-colour illustrations and handouts, and includes a new introduction by Alex Kelly reflecting on her own experiences of using the resources since they were first developed.
Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties. Self-awareness and self-esteem is an essential prerequisite to developing social skills and so this book is an excellent first step to any social skills programme. This resources creates the foundation of the Talkabout heirachy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal comes before verbal, with assertiveness coming last. Resources include: an assessment framework planning and evaluation forms a three-term intervention plan for schools over 40 structured activity sessions focussing on self-awareness and self-esteem all the supplementary handouts and images needed to deliver the sessions. This second edition is presented with full-colour illustrations and handouts, and includes a new introduction by Alex Kelly reflecting on her own experiences of using the resources since they were first developed.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- About the author -- Introduction -- Initial Assessment -- Level 1 Talkabout Body Language -- Level 2 Talkabout Talking -- Level 3 Talkabout Assertiveness -- Group Cohesion Activities -- Plan of Intervention -- Forms -- Index
Designed specifically for young children (aged 4 and above) or children with special needs, this practical resource is packed with activities and games for developing friendship skills. The book includes:· Over 25 activities to develop friendship skills · A CD with colour versions of the activities to print out and use· A 1 year teaching plan to help teachers incorporate groups into the school curriculum · A short introduction to working with children with friendship and social skills difficulties· 25 excellent group cohesion activities to use within in your groups· Forms and evaluation sheets to help with the smooth running of groupsThis resource has already been piloted across the UK and abroad and has proved to be very popular with teachers, therapists and children. This is certainly a must have for anyone working with young children or children with special needs on developing their social skills and skills at making and maintaining friendships.
alkabout Adults is a practical resource to help therapists or support staff to develop self-awareness and self-esteem in adults. It has been particularly aimed at adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. It has been adapted from the Talkabout for Children: developing self-awareness and self-esteem book to be suitable for an older audience. This means that some of the activities are almost identical but a number of them have been adapted to be more appropriate. There are also some new activities such as the 'A book about me.' which enables the adults to make up a book over the course of the sessions that will summarise some keys personal facts. This can work well as an addition to a communication passport or equivalent, or can stand alone as an alternative. Talkabout for Adults is a stand-alone resource with approximately a year's worth of activities to develop self-awareness and self-esteem. It has 50 activities to do with adults and it has been successfully piloted at Speaking Space. It includes: a short assessment of self-awareness and self-esteem; a year's worth of work on self-awareness and self-esteem including 50 activities and some worksheets; practical suggestions to make your group work successful including 25 group cohesion activities, a plan for intervention, and forms for monitoring and evaluation. This resource continues to use the Talkabout hierarchical approach to teaching skills, that is, basic self-awareness skills are taught prior to more complex skills such as social skills and friendship skills. This also means that this resource is designed to be used logically from topic 1 through to topic 8. Most of the activities are more suited to working in a group setting but some of them can be adapted for one-to-one work. Alex Kelly is a speech and language therapist who specialises in working with children who have low self esteem, and difficulty with their social skills and friendship skills. She spent 23 years working as a speech and language therapist in the NNHS but now runs her own company - Alex Kelly Ltd. She provides social skills training and consultancy to schools and organisations across the UK and overseas. Her company also provides speech and language therapy in a number of special schools in eh south of England.
Keep students sharp and prevent learning loss with activities aligned to Common Core and other state standards in this second edition, full-color resource. Students risk falling behind at the start of a new school year without practicing skills learned in the previous year. This parent-involvement resource is designed to bridge the away-from-school gap with reading, writing, and mathematics activities that reinforce learning from kindergarten and prepare students for first grade. With clear instructions for quick and fun family activities, this is the perfect resource for parents to get involved in their child's education and set them up for a successful school year.
This practical resource is packed with activities and games for developing self awareness and self esteem - an essential prerequisite to developing social skills. This book provides an excellent first step to any social skills programme.
The ‘Using storytelling to talk about...’ series is a collection of five easy-to-follow books which contain engaging interactive short stories, poems and songs specifi cally written to support learning and development of the three prime areas within the Early Years Foundation Stage. The stories and poems deal with Personal, social and emotional development and Physical development issues and experiences that the children would clearly relate to and discuss. Making relationships provides valuable storytelling advice and performance suggestions for each story or poem/song, enabling practitioners to not only develop effective storytelling skills, but also create a stimulating environment for the children to listen, participate and explore. It contains: * Eight original interactive themed stories and poems/songs * Concise EYFS learning objectives * EYFS reference chart, observation suggestions and record sheet. Each story or poem/song includes: * Storytelling suggestions, resources and set up * Discussion and ideas to reinforce the theme and story/poem * Consolidation ideas, e.g. role play, circle game, display, puppets * Related cross-curricular activities within the learning environment.
