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Talkabout for Children 3: Developing Friendship Skills (2nd Edition)

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Talkabout for Children: Developing Friendship Skills 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 resources creates the final level of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal comes before verbal, with assertiveness coming last.

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SKU: 9781138065765 - 66 Categories: , , , , , , NDIS approved: Yes Ages: 6 - 12 ISBN-13: 9781138065765 Author: Alex Kelly Published: July 5, 2017 Pages: 228 Edition: 2nd Edition

Product overview

Talkabout for Children: Developing Friendship Skills 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 resources creates the final level 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 25 structured activity sessions focusing on friendship skills
  • 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

Introduction

Formative Assessment Framework

Topic 1: What is a friend?

Topic 2: Friendly behaviours

Topic 3: Choosing a friend

Topic 4: Starting out

Topic 5: Being a good friend

Topic 6: Coping with problems

School Intervention Plan

Planning and Evaluation Templates

 

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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