1st Edition

Developing Pupils Social Communication Skills Practical Resources

    112 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    112 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    Learning to communicate with other people is perhaps the most important learning children do. Children with social communication problems may have trouble picking up the crucial skills of interacting and communicating with their peers, which can have more serious implications later on in life.

    This resource will help teachers, teaching assistants and therapists to develop and improve the social skills of their younger pupils; provides sets of easily accessible, verbal and non-verbal games and activities to encourage social interaction; provides a clear rationale to the games to help the teacher or teaching assistant really get to grips with how and why these activities can help; provides a structured approach to pupils' social development for pupils in their early and primary years which has been tried, tested and proved to be effective; and includes assessment forms and monthly and daily planning sheets

    Contents: Introduction; Assessment; Planning; Prompting; Games: Non-verbal skills; Verbal Skills; Alphabetical Index of games.

    Biography

    Alison Parkinson and Julie Border both of the Speech and Language Therapy Department, Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare NHS Trust, George Thomas Learning and Autism Support Team Special Needs Teaching Service Leicester City Council LEA, Penny Barratt Leicestershire County Council LEA, Helen Joy and Mo Potter Autism Outreach Team , Specialist Teaching Service Leicestershire County Council LEA.