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Talkabout for Children 1: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem (2nd Edition)

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Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 2e is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

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.

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SKU: 9781138065253 - 66 Categories: , , NDIS approved: Yes Ages: 6 - 12 Author: Alex Kelly Publisher: Routledge Page count: 228 Edition: 2nd Edition ISBN: 9781138065253 Publish date: July 5, 2017

Product overview

Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 2e is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Self-awareness and self-esteem is an essential prerequisite to developing social skills and so this book is an excellent first step to any social skills programme. This resources creates the foundation of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal comes before verbal, with assertiveness coming last.

Resources include:

– an assessment framework
– planning and evaluation forms
– a three-term intervention plan for schools
– over 40 structured activity sessions focusing on self-awareness and self-esteem
– all the supplementary handouts and images needed to deliver the sessions.

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Initial Assessment

Talkabout Me

Topic 1: This is me

Topic 2: People in my life

Topic 3: How I look

Topic 4: What am I like?

Topic 5: My qualities and strengths

Topic 6: Things that make me feel good

Topic 7: The way I feel

Topic 8: I am great

Group Cohesion Activities

Plan of Intervention

Forms

Index

Author(s) Biography

Alex Kelly is a Speech and Language Therapist with over 35 years’ experience of working with both children and adults with a learning disability and specialising in working with children around social and relationship skills. She set up her own business (Alex Kelly Ltd) in 2009 providing training and consultancy work in social skills around the UK and abroad. She then set up Speaking Space Ltd in Romsey, Hampshire, a company that provides speech and language therapy and a day service for adults with a learning disability which is now being run by her friend and colleague Naomi Pearson. Alex is the author of the bestselling ‘Talkabout’ resources and ‘Working with Adults with a Learning Disability’. She still lives in Hampshire and divides her time between her Talkabout training and personal commitments.

Get the Talkabout for Children Set: Books 1-3 HERE!

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