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Talkabout for Children 1
Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem
Series: Talkabout
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The book offers a comprehensive resource including an assessment framework, planning and evaluation forms, a structured three-term intervention plan for schools, and over 40 activity sessions focusing on self-awareness and self-esteem, accompanied by full-colour illustrations and all necessary handouts.
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This book is ideal for educators, therapists, and professionals involved in social skills development programmes for children with social, emotional, or behavioural challenges.
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Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 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 are essential prerequisites to developing social skills. As such, this book serves as an excellent first step in any social skills programme. This resource establishes the foundation of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness precedes non-verbal skills, non-verbal skills precede verbal skills, and assertiveness is developed 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.
Series: Talkabout
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Talkabout
This core Talkabout manual is a practical resource essential for Speech and Language Therapists and other professionals who need to help people with special needs develop social skills. Over 60 activities form an extensive, structured social skills programme that can easily be adapted for use with children, adolescents, and adults. Written by bestselling author and practising Speech and Language Therapist,...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills
The purchase of the TASS manual includes access to the downloadable assessment tool for one user. If you would like to purchase additional downloads for multiple users, please email TASS@tandf.co.uk. For more information on the TASS and the Talkabout series, as well as helpful videos and guidance developed by the authors, please visit https://routledgelearning.com/TASS. Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills (TASS)...Paperback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills
The purchase of the TASS manual includes access to the downloadable assessment tool for one user. If you would like to purchase additional downloads for multiple users, please email TASS@tandf.co.uk. For more information on the TASS and the Talkabout series, as well as helpful videos and guidance developed by the authors, please visit https://routledgelearning.com/TASS. Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills (TASS)...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Adults
Talkabout for Adults is a practical resource to help therapists or support staff develop self-awareness and self-esteem in adults. It is particularly aimed at adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. This resource has been adapted from Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-awareness and Self-esteem to suit an older audience. Some activities are almost identical,...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 1
Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 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 are essential prerequisites to developing social skills. As such, this book serves as an excellent first step in any social skills programme. This resource establishes the...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 2
Talkabout for Children 2 is a bestselling professional workbook, designed to support educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children. Social communication is an essential aspect of our quality of life, and this resource helps to develop this in young children aged 4-11 years old. The book introduces the second level of the Talkabout hierarchy and...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 2
Talkabout for Children 2: Developing Social Communication, 3rd edition is a bestselling professional workbook, designed to support educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children. Social communication is an essential aspect of our quality of life, and this resource helps to develop this in young children aged 4-11 years old. The book introduces the second level...Paperback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 3
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 resource creates the final level of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal skills precede verbal skills, with assertiveness coming last. Resources include: An assessment...Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Teenagers
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. 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....Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Relationships
The third title in the successful Talkabout series, Talkabout Relationships reflects current literature and research on developing relationships for people with learning disabilities. It aims, through group work, to improve self-esteem and relationship skills in people who are having difficulties in making or maintaining friends. This highly illustrated, practical resource is designed to help teachers or therapists to work through...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Sex and Relationships 2
Talkabout Sex & Relationships 2 is a comprehensive toolkit for all therapists, educators, and support staff who deliver sex education to people with special needs. It is intended primarily to support group work, but activities can be easily adapted to suit the needs of individuals with varying abilities. The resource emphasises the importance of being well-informed in regards to the...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Theory of Mind
Theory of mind is a key consideration in autism spectrum conditions and is frequently associated with social, emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties. The latest practical workbook in the TALKABOUT series, this book is designed to support those for whom theory of mind does not come naturally. It teaches strategies that can be used to identify othersβ thoughts and feelings...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138065253
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 July 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 19 Tables, color; 526 Line drawings, color; 526 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 297.0mm
Weight: 700g
Pages: 228
About the Author
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.
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Talkabout
This core Talkabout manual is a practical resource essential for Speech and Language Therapists and other professionals who need to help people with special needs develop social skills. Over 60 activities form an extensive, structured social skills programme that can easily be adapted for use with children, adolescents, and adults. Written by bestselling author and practising Speech and Language Therapist,...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills
The purchase of the TASS manual includes access to the downloadable assessment tool for one user. If you would like to purchase additional downloads for multiple users, please email TASS@tandf.co.uk. For more information on the TASS and the Talkabout series, as well as helpful videos and guidance developed by the authors, please visit https://routledgelearning.com/TASS. Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills (TASS)...Paperback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills
The purchase of the TASS manual includes access to the downloadable assessment tool for one user. If you would like to purchase additional downloads for multiple users, please email TASS@tandf.co.uk. For more information on the TASS and the Talkabout series, as well as helpful videos and guidance developed by the authors, please visit https://routledgelearning.com/TASS. Talkabout Assessment of Social Skills (TASS)...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Adults
Talkabout for Adults is a practical resource to help therapists or support staff develop self-awareness and self-esteem in adults. It is particularly aimed at adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. This resource has been adapted from Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-awareness and Self-esteem to suit an older audience. Some activities are almost identical,...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 2
Talkabout for Children 2 is a bestselling professional workbook, designed to support educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children. Social communication is an essential aspect of our quality of life, and this resource helps to develop this in young children aged 4-11 years old. The book introduces the second level of the Talkabout hierarchy and...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 2
Talkabout for Children 2: Developing Social Communication, 3rd edition is a bestselling professional workbook, designed to support educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children. Social communication is an essential aspect of our quality of life, and this resource helps to develop this in young children aged 4-11 years old. The book introduces the second level...Paperback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Children 3
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 resource creates the final level of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal skills precede verbal skills, with assertiveness coming last. Resources include: An assessment...Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout for Teenagers
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. 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....Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Talkabout Relationships
The third title in the successful Talkabout series, Talkabout Relationships reflects current literature and research on developing relationships for people with learning disabilities. It aims, through group work, to improve self-esteem and relationship skills in people who are having difficulties in making or maintaining friends. This highly illustrated, practical resource is designed to help teachers or therapists to work through...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Talkabout Theory of Mind
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