group cohesion activities help you to ensure that all participants benefit fully from attending your group sessions. Alex Kelly is a Speech & Language Therapist who specialises in working with people with social skills and relationship skills difficulties. She currently runs her own business providing social skills training and consultancy to schools and organisations across the UK and overseas. A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach for teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers It is a practical resource essential for Speech and Language Therapists and other professionals who need to help people with special needs develop social skills.

Talkabout resources are the well known Social communication programmes developed by Alex Kelly. What is Talkabout?

Talkabout is a series of social communication programmes. It is a practical resource which is aimed at improving Social Communication Skills such as; Talkabout for Childrenis written for those working in primary schools to help children develop self-awareness and self-esteem, social skills, and friendship skills. includes a short assessment to highlight the module that is most appropriate to teach and the skills within that module that are relevant Groups work best if students get on and are well matched for both personality and need. Aim for a group of between 5 and 8 people. Remember that a larger group will mean the level may take longer to complete. It was developed by Alex Kelly who worked in a FE college with a large number of young adults with intellectual disabilities. After a year of social skills interventions, using pre and post assessments, she noticed a pattern in who was responding and who wasn't, centred around the hierarchy of self-awareness coming before non-verbal skills and non-verbal coming before verbal and assertiveness coming last. Alex developed an intervention based on this hierarchy that was published after extensive testing and piloting.

Talkabout for Teenagers is a comprehensive program of professional resources to help you deliver group sessions on social and relationship skills for teenagers with social, emotional or behavioral difficulties. The program follows the Talkabout hierarchy, building self-awareness and self-esteem first, then moving on to non-verbal communication, talking, friendship and assertiveness. It includes a short assessment to highlight the module that is most appropriate to teach and the skills within that module that are relevant. Talkabout for Teenagers is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for older children and young adults with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.structured session guides focussing on self-awareness and self-esteem, body language, conversational skills, friendship skills and assertiveness

A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach to teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers. The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. This content is restricted to only users who have bought the book. To get access to this content for this title answer the following question in the form below.A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach to teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers. Designed specifically for teenagers, this practical workbook provides ready-made material for running social and relationship skills groups with older children and young adults.

Talkabout for Adults is written for adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. the huge range of activities, group discussions and handouts for each level of the program mean that you have everything you need to deliver a successful social skills curriculum provides a short guide to running successful social skills groups, for example, the numbers for each group, group rules, developing group cohesion, how to set up a role play.The SENCO role was established nearly thirty years ago in the SEN Code of Practice 1994 where it stated that all mainstream schools must have a SENCO responsible for coordinating services around children with SEN. It is a complete group work resource that offers a hierarchical approach, with ready-made material to assist teaching social and relationship skills specifically to older children and young adults. This level will take 15–22 lessons depending on the ability of the students and the length of the lessons It is a complete group work resource that offers a hierarchical approach, with ready-made materialtoassistteaching social and relationship skills specifically to older children and young adults.