Talkabout for Teenagers: Developing Social and Emotional Communication Skills

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It is a practical resource essential for Speech and Language Therapists and other professionals who need to help people with special needs develop social skills.

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. These programmes provide a comprehensive workbook. It is a practical resource, is user friendly and photocopiable. group cohesion activities help you to ensure that all participants benefit fully from attending your group sessions.

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. 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. structured session guides focussing on self-awareness and self-esteem, body language, conversational skills, friendship skills and assertiveness The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. It was developed by Alex Kelly who worked in a FE college with a large number of young adults with intellectual disabilities. After a year of social skills interventions, using pre and post assessments, she noticed a pattern in who was responding and who wasn't, centred around the hierarchy of self-awareness coming before non-verbal skills and non-verbal coming before verbal and assertiveness coming last. Alex developed an intervention based on this hierarchy that was published after extensive testing and piloting.

provides a short guide to running successful social skills groups, for example, the numbers for each group, group rules, developing group cohesion, how to set up a role play. Talkabout for Adults is written for adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs.The SENCO role was established nearly thirty years ago in the SEN Code of Practice 1994 where it stated that all mainstream schools must have a SENCO responsible for coordinating services around children with SEN.