Talkabout for Teenagers: Developing Social and Emotional Communication Skills

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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.

Includes an assessment and outcome measures: the Talkabout assessment includes a method of quantifying results and if you attend Alex’s training, she gives you additional systems to measure effectiveness through using targets and spreadsheets. Talkabout resources are the well known Social communication programmes developed by Alex Kelly. What is Talkabout? These two terrific Talkabout books have been written to support educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for older children and young adults with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties. Talkabout for Teenagers is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for older children and young adults with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties. It is a complete group work resource that offers a hierarchical approach, with ready-made material to assist teaching social and relationship skills specifically to older children and young adults.group cohesion activities help you to ensure that all participants benefit fully from attending your group sessions. A social skills textbook: Alex has recently written a textbook on social skills which combines sound theory with experience and evidence to make it an essential book for anyone wanting to further their knowledge of social skills. a social skills assessment framework enables you to evaluate a young person's social skills and identify where to start work These programmes provide a comprehensive workbook. It is a practical resource, is user friendly and photocopiable.

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.

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Talkabout for 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.

A hierarchical approach to teaching social skills: foundation skills are taught prior to more complex skills. Suitable for all ages: the different books are designed with a certain population in mind, so that you will use the resource best suited to your client group, from young children (4+) to adults. Includes activities and plans of intervention: Talkabout is a scheme of work that is designed to be followed week by week, with plans for your intervention divided into 3 academic terms for anyone working in schools. Talkabout is a complete programme for developing self-esteem, social and friendship skills. It is based on teaching children or young adults in groups in school or college but can be adapted for 1:1 sessions or for use at home. It uses a hierarchical method of developing skills where basic or foundation skills are taught before more complicated skills.Provides a short guide to running successful social skills groups, for example, the numbers for each group, group rules, developing group cohesion and how to set up a role play session.