Social Communication Skills Bundle for ages 4-11 years (Team Licence)

Teaching the recognition of emotions is standard practice for both teachers and speech and language therapists. Our popular Emotions and Facial Expressions pack provides a set of resources for therapists and teachers, suitable for children at KS1 and above, which can be used to supplement therapy and teaching sessions. It may prove useful in both school and home programmes.

The resources help to raise children’s awareness and recognition of emotions in themselves and others and to recognise how situations affect people differently. Particularly useful for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

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This multi-task resource, designed for children 6 years and upwards with language delay, specific language impairment and semantic/pragmatic disorder, targets the improvement of question formation, understanding idioms, homophones and discussing feelings.

The pack includes our trademark colourful and engaging illustrations.

The pack is ideal for small group work or one to one, to facilitate repetition, modelling and reinforcement.

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Visual cue cards and picture strips are an essential strategy offered by many Speech and Language Therapists, especially in a school setting. Children who are neurodivergent and those with Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) may exhibit poor organisational skills, limited ability to sequence, a lack of awareness of time and poor memory. Visual cues are therefore, a vital tool to support these children in their daily routine.

Our popular visual cue cards pack provides support to teach the ‘rules’ of good listening along with active listening strategies and subject pictures for visual schedules.

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Inferencing is a difficult skill to achieve for many children. This pack provides a collection of colourful and engaging illustrations and associated questions, ready for discussion, designed to develop inferencing and reasoning skills in children aged 6-11 years.

In addition, mind-mapping strategies are described and explained.

The activities are useful in one-to-one sessions or in groups. Many children benefit from group discussions where they can listen to the opinions of others. They may discover that sometimes, there are no right or wrong answers to questions.

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Our popular Practical Pragmatics resource provides a range of strategies to support behavioural and communication targets. The pack, devised by Bec shanks and illustrated by Helen Rippon, is designed to help children recognise and manage their emotions, to rehearse and prepare for conversation and to break the cycle of repetitive challenging behaviour.

The pack provides practical ideas that can be used in everyday settings in school or at home and is suitable for a wide age and ability range.

Full instructions for use are included.

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Our popular Mr Goodguess resource was specifically designed to help children in the development of crucial inferencing skills - promoting the use of visual clues, and the drawing of inferences. Devised by Catherine Redmayne and illustrated by Helen Rippon, the pack includes a range of colourful picture based exercises inviting the child to consider 'What Mr Goodguess thinks...'.

Suitable for use in the classroom, small group sessions or therapy sessions with children at KS1 and 2 (ages 6-11 years).

Each section includes additional self contained homework or reinforcement exercises with full instructions.

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A series of 10 fun and colourful stories about characters who live on ‘Friendship Terrace’. These stories are especially relevant for children who have difficulties in forming relationships and children with ASD.

Designed for children 5-11 years, this resource can be used in a one-to-one setting or in a group, to reflect upon, and teach about, friendship skills.

The Friendship Terrace stories can form the basis of 10 to 12 friendship skills sessions (for example one a day for two weeks). Individual worksheets could be used following the stories to review learning.

Full instructions for use are provided, including how to set 'ground rules' and an introduction to friendship skills.

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Every day, children and young people are expected to respond to a wide variety of social situations that occur in their daily lives. This entertaining pack of role-play scenarios helps to prepare them for these situations where they may struggle to respond with appropriate understanding, empathy or listening skills.

This practical resource uses charming, illustrated role-play activities to promote appropriate responses to common social enquires. Appropriate responses to such situations demonstrate a knowledge of ‘social code’ as well as listening and empathy skills. This pack works at a basic level. Intermediate and advanced level resources are also available.

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Every day, children and young people are expected to respond to a wide variety of social situations that occur in their daily lives. This entertaining pack of role-play scenarios helps to prepare them for these situations where they may struggle to respond with appropriate understanding, empathy or listening skills.

This practical resource uses charming, illustrated role-play activities to promote appropriate responses to common social enquires. Appropriate responses to such situations demonstrate a knowledge of ‘social code’ as well as listening and empathy skills. This pack works at an intermediate level. Basic and advanced level resources are also available.

These activities are suitable for children ages 7 to 11.

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Starting secondary school is a time of great change for any child . This pack is specifically designed to help prepare for the transition from primary to secondary school and thereby  reduce the anxiety that children may experience .

Secondary School Readiness contains eight topics and is full of practical activities designed to support that transition. It focuses on typical situations that a child may encounter during their first weeks in secondary school.

Particularly suitable for those who need extra support with transition - perhaps due to additional educational need and/or anxiety. Perfect for Year 6 classroom transition lessons or small group support

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The pack is full of activities aimed towards managing emotional responses and its resulting behaviour in the school setting.

Talking About School  - developing situational understanding is a resource designed for children aged 5-7 years+ who may have difficulty managing their emotions in the school setting. The pack depicts a range of challenging social and educational scenarios which children in this age group may encounter when at school.

Successful management of these situations is dependent on the young person’s social skills, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal problem-solving capacity, as well as the response of others and the context of the event. This charmingly illustrated pack aims to provide children with strategies to manage these situations.

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Talking About Friends : situational understanding is a resource designed for children 5-7years+ (Foundation Stage 2 and Key Stage 1), depicting a range of challenging social and educational scenarios that children in this age group may encounter. The pack looks in particular at situations that may arise around friendship. Successful management of these situations is dependent on the young person’s social skills, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal problem-solving capacity, as well as the response of others and the context of the event. This pack aims to teach children specific strategies to manage these situations.

The pack is full of activities and charming illustrations designed to manage emotional responses and resulting behaviour in situations focussing on relationships with friends.

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The transition to secondary school can be a daunting time for any child, particularly children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or a learning disability. Talking About Secondary School is a resource designed to help ease the transition between Primary and Secondary School.

This resource  gives children the opportunity to discuss common situations and challenges  that may arise in Secondary School, thus, helping them to cope with the extra social demands and complicated routines. Successful management of these situations is dependent on the young person’s social skills, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal problem-solving capacity, as well as the response of others and the context of the event. This pack aims to teach children specific strategies to manage these situations, as well as preparing them for the changes that they will face when starting secondary school.

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Talking About Home is a pack designed for children in Key Stage 2 and above (7-11years+), including those with higher level developmental language disorders.

The pack aims to develop verbal reasoning, prediction and inference skills. It focuses on the topics relevant to a child’s experiences at home, providing engaging illustrations and a variety of different scenarios.

Every day, children and young people are required to handle a wide range of challenging social situations. Successful management of these is dependent on the child’s social skills and interpersonal problem-solving capacity, as well as the responses of others and the particular social context.

Talking About Conversations is a resource designed for children aged 7 years+, depicting a range of social and educational scenarios that children in this age group may encounter.

The pack is full of activities designed to develop social skills, situational understanding and verbal reasoning focus, ultimately supporting the child's conversational skills.

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Every day, children and young people are required to handle a wide range of challenging social situations. Successful management of these is dependent on the child’s social skills and interpersonal problem-solving capacity, as well as the responses of others and the particular social context.

Talking About Classroom Behaviour is a resource designed children aged 6 years+ , depicting a range of challenging educational scenarios that children in this age group may encounter. The pack is full of activities aimed towards developing social skills, situational understanding and verbal reasoning focus, helping them to develop appropriate classroom behaviour.

Aimed at a primary school age group, this pack includes many real life situations encountered in classrooms, depicting challenging classroom behaviour and communication breakdown and suggesting alternative ways of dealing with them.

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This is one of a series of resources devised by Felicity Durham, a specialist speech and language therapist, and developed by Helen Rippon. Felicity identified the need for attractive, simple activities in a game format, to develop semantic skills, problem solving, verbal reasoning, turn taking & attention & listening skills. Additional targets include vocabulary enrichment and use of prepositions.

A  fun set of games and activities  help develop these semantic skills by encouraging discussion on how to cross a range of barriers in order to “get home”. The activities continue to build on new vocabulary and sentence structure and provide opportunities for the children to participate in verbal reasoning tasks and to use descriptive and imaginative language

Suitable for small group & one-to-one settings for children aged 4yrs – 7yrs.

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A fun pack which is  designed to develop number concepts and food categories along with a wide range of social communication skills including turn taking; and listening. It is also useful for developing self-confidence, expressive language, vocabulary enrichment and question formation.

Suitable for children aged from 3 - 7 years

The 'Cafe Game' enables children to role play a café scenario, acting as either the ‘waiter’ or a ‘customer’.  Lots of suggestions for activities are included.

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Our Causal Sentences – Why... Because resource provides an engaging intervention to support comprehension of ‘Why’ questions and the use of the causal connective ‘because’. The ability to understand and produce cause-and-effect statements is essential for children’s explanation skills and overall narrative development.

This full-colour resource pack includes a bank of illustrated sequences designed to help children form two-clause sentences and independently create cause-and-consequence statements with visual support.

It is most suitable for use with children aged 3- 7 years and full instructions are included.

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Activities to support early question formation skills for children between the ages of 4 and 7 years.

Practitioners will be aware that, while many resources are available to help children understand questions, far fewer offer activities which develop sentence construction and provide opportunities for the child to practise asking questions in a meaningful way. This ‘Let’s ask questions’ resource offers activities for question formation, to support the modelling and repetition required for children to learn.

The fully illustrated pack is accompanied by clear instructions and ideas for extension activities.

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The Boy with the Blue Shoes - Words for All Children (WAC) resource is intended to be used as a way in to verbal storytelling, to expand vocabulary and encourage verbal interaction. Written by Florence King and full of Helen Rippon’s  charming illustration, its central character is the boy with the blue shoes, and the activities are all based around his adventures.

Have you ever noticed that children seem to respond more readily, learn more quickly and better remember something that is funny or perhaps a little crazy or a bit naughty? Each activity in this pack includes something that is a little bit unusual, wacky, unlikely or surprising – just for fun!

Aimed at children aged 6-9 years, this 'Talking About Resilience' pack allows professionals to engage with young people, to help develop essential resilience and problem-solving skills. Many schools are adopting a whole-school approach to promoting resilience and a positive attitude in children and young people.

Resilience has been described as ‘the capacity to bounce back from adversity’ and there is an increasing awareness that building resilience in young people can lead to better outcomes for them in the future. This Talking About pack offers a highly visual approach to facilitate discussion among young people.

As they grow up, children may experience a wide range of challenges - some serious, and some more ‘everyday’ stresses. The more resilient a young person is, the more effectively they can react to such stresses by exhibiting bravery, adaptability and problem-solving skills.

The pack can be used in a one-to-one setting with individual students, but is more appropriate for small group work in order to encourage exchanges of ideas and promote discussion.

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