Talking About Community – Social skills (Team Licence)

Name: Talking About Community - Social skills (Team Licence)
SKU: T-TA7-2
Availability: InStock

Description

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.

For more information see below.

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Some young people may require additional support and instruction to pick up positive social skills, reinforcing what they learn through their everyday interactions with adults and peers. This can be particularly important for those pupils with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

This edition of our popular ‘Talking about …’ series is almost entirely based on the experiences and difficulties of a group of Year 9 students who took part in a programme to develop their social skills in functional settings. From this programme, Sadie Childs, SLT, moved on to develop these experiences into a pack of resources – designed specifically to help young people to navigate similar situations. ‘Talking about Community’ has been developed in conjunction with the two SLTs who delivered the programme, and contains many real events and dilemmas experienced by the students.

This pack includes Helen Rippon’s highly engaging illustrations, which provide visual support to the situations depicted. Full instructions for use are provided. The pack include 10 large images, each illustrating a scenario that a young person may encounter within their community. They are followed by smaller pictures, which depict potential courses of action, some appropriate and some inappropriate. The pack also provides discussion questions, should the group or individual pupil need some prompting. Each section also has extension activities, which offer further opportunities to discuss ways of dealing with difficult feelings and the personal qualities that may be required to resolve them.

The scenarios include:

Waiting in a queue
On the bus
Going into a shop
Helping others
An emergency
Asking for help
Getting lost

The pack is suitable for teachers, teaching assistants (TAs) and speech and language therapists (SLTs).

Format: PDF file. Includes instructions, colour and black and white alternative pictures, 91 pages.

Age: Age 13+

Snippets: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this resource include coloured worksheets and the following activities:

On the bus. Marcus is on the bus on his way into town to meet his friends. However, Marcus gets anxious whenever he travels by bus. Four pictures are included in this activity, which can be used to help decide what Marcus should do to reduce his anxiety on the bus journey.
Helping others. Abigail is walking past a shop when she sees a lady trip over, fall onto the pavement and spill her shopping everywhere. Work through the options to decide what should Abigail do when faced with someone who is in difficulty. This activity can also be used to discuss whether the child has ever done a ‘good deed.’