Talking About Friends online resource (Team Licence)

The online ‘Talking About Friends’ resource supports children in discussing challenging social situations they might face.

Children are often required to respond to a wide range of challenging social situations that occur in their daily lives. 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. Many children can find the management of everyday situations difficult, particularly if they are on the autistic spectrum or have a learning difficulty.

Online Talking About Friends contains different scenarios including feeling left out, negotiating, and saying sorry. For each large illustration, four additional pictures will then be displayed, depicting different responses to the scenario, some appropriate and some inappropriate.

A number of different scenarios.

• Each scenario is followed by response pictures which illustrate ways of behaving which will encourage discussion about the ‘right’ thing to do and prompt students to make their own suggestions.
• The facility to record the students’ responses and discussions and play them back. This makes it ideal for role play and ‘rehearsal’ of social conversations.
• The facility to record the child’s responses
• The teacher/therapist/parent can make notes within the digital resource and then email these from within the resource, together with the recordings.
• For children or young people who have not learnt to read or who have reading difficulties, there is optional audio.
• The background of the text can also be changed to yellow, which may help some children read the text.
• By purchasing this resource you are able to email a link to 10 parents/carers in any 14-day period.

Find out more about the Talking About Online Series

Technical stuff:

Black Sheep Press digital web resources were built and designed for use on PCs and laptops. If you wish to use this resource on a mobile device please see our Apps.
This is an online resource so when using it you will need to be connected to the internet.

Talking About Friends is also available as a download in printable format.