Social Communication Skills Bundle for children 11+ years

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 with social responses - to respond with appropriate understanding, empathy or listening skills.

This practical resource uses 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 advanced level. Basic and intermediate level resources are also available.

The activities are suitable for teenagers (UK Key Stage 3/4; 11-16 years) whose pragmatic skills are delayed.

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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 Community is a resource aimed at children and young people aged thirteen and above. It is designed to aid those young people in developing their social skills in the community. Good social skills enable us to function in diverse situations in terms of making good choices, knowing what to say, and knowing how to behave. This is the case not only in their educational setting, but also in their wider social community.

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To be an effective learners, young people need to develop self-worth and confidence in their abilities, take responsibility for their own learning and performance, demonstrate persistence and resilience in the face of setbacks and manage feelings of anger and frustration. Emotional literacy can be thought of as a set of skills that help learners be successful in school, in work and in relationships.

Talking About Social and Emotional Skills (part of our popular Talking About series) aims to support young people in the development of their social and emotional skills and is aimed at children between the ages of eleven and thirteen.

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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 Resilience pack focuses on resilience, offering a highly visual approach to facilitate discussion among young people which makes it appropriate to use with secondary school students of a wide ability range.

This 'Talking About Resilience' pack allows professionals to engage with young people, to help develop essential resilience and problem solving skills. Adolescence is a real window of opportunity to teach new skills, capabilities and strategies to support young people to maintain good mental health in adult life.

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This pack give teachers and speech therapists/pathologists suggestions for varied and entertaining activities to promote speaking and listening in four key areas of oral language; asking questions, active listening, building vocabulary and using language for thinking. These can be used as whole class activities to meet curriculum targets, or to address individual therapy targets.

Suitable for use with a wide age and ability range from KS1-KS3 (6- 14 years)

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