Talkabout for Teenagers: Developing Social and Emotional Communication Skills

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Designed specifically for teenagers, this practical workbook provides ready-made material for running social and relationship skills groups with older children and young adults. Talkabout for Teenagers is a comprehensive program of professional resources to help you deliver group sessions on social and relationship skills for teenagers with social, emotional or behavioral difficulties. The program follows the Talkabout hierarchy, building self-awareness and self-esteem first, then moving on to non-verbal communication, talking, friendship and assertiveness. 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.

It includes a short assessment to highlight the module that is most appropriate to teach and the skills within that module that are relevant.Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

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. 37 structured session guides focussing on self-awareness and self-esteem, body language, conversational skills, friendship skills and assertiveness We offer discounts for schools when purchasing 5 or more copies of books in the Talkabout Series. Get in touch to find out how much you can save.

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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 materialtoassistteaching 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. Talkabout for Childrenis written for those working in primary schools to help children develop self-awareness and self-esteem, social skills, and friendship skills.

The Talkabout Cards - Self Awareness Activitiesfeatures 20 group games to encourage self awareness and effective social skills. Alex Kelly is a Speech & Language Therapist who specialises in working with people with social skills and relationship skills difficulties. She currently runs her own business providing social skills training and consultancy to schools and organisations across the UK and overseas. group cohesion activities help you to ensure that all participants benefit fully from attending your group sessions.

Talkabout for Teenagers and Adults

A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach for teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers Talkabout for Adults is written for adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. 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 is a series of social communication programmes. It is a practical resource which is aimed at improving Social Communication Skills such as; This level will take 15–22 lessons depending on the ability of the students and the length of the lessons