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Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Insights from Conversation Analysis
125146
Hilary Gardner Michael A. Forrester

Offers a fresh perspective on how conversation analysis can be used to highlight the sophisticated nature of what children actually do when interacting with their peers, parents, and other adults. * Brings together a contributor team of leading experts in the emerging field of child-focused conversation analytic studies, from both academic and professional research backgrounds * Includes examples of typically developing children and those who face a variety of challenges to participation, as they interact with parents and friends, teachers, counsellors and health professionals * Encompasses linguistic, psychological and sociological perspectives * Offers new insights into children's communication as they move from home into wider society, highlighting how this is expressed in different cultural contexts

Ages: -

$69.95

Draw on Your Emotions
10689
Margot Sunderland

A series of structured 'easy-to-do' picture exercises with the aim of helping people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life are presented in this manual. It is made up of a series of illustrations which are intended to be used as photocopy originals, providing a source of effective ready-made material. - Contains exercises and pictures specifically designed to ease the process of talking about feelings. - Helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageable and insoluble problems into a new perspective. - Offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises that can be adapted for any age range and ability. - A superb non-verbal counselling tool. Contents: Your life; Who are youfeelings; Things which make life difficult; The good things in life; Feelings about places & Other people. - 136pp, A4, illustrated, wire-o-bound

Ages: - Adult

$131.56

Mumble Jumble A Social Conversation Game
123982
Marjorie Mitlin

For some kids, small talk is a big deal. Whether they're shy, self-conscious, or experiencing the social and communication difficulties associated with Asperger's Syndrome, these kids are stumped when it comes to conversing comfortably with another person.
Mumble Jumble gives children and teens a chance to "practice" conversation in a safe, structured, and often hilarious way. Working in teams, players attempt to create logical conversations from sets of unordered sentences (dialogue strips). The first team to come up with a sensible dialogue must then discuss it, explaining the mood of the conversation and what feelings are being expressed. Next, they must consider the nonverbal aspects of their conversation by acting it out--with appropriate emotional inflection, tone of voice, body language, eye contact, and facial expression. Detailed rules and a pad of scrambled conversations to use as follow-up homework are included.
Fast-paced and fun, this game is a great way to teach reciprocal conversation. Kids relax and lose their self-consciousness because they're playing in teams--and practicing with somebody else's words, not their own.

2009

Ages: -

$95.00

Social Skills Interactive My School Day CD Rom
4183

My School Day is the latest CD-ROM edition of the Social Skill Builder series of quality learning materials. This computer program uses real life video to take the child into a typical school day, including the classroom, cafeteria, and playground! This amazing program allows the child to view appropriate interaction and social behaviors within the school environment and interact! The child is asked to identify, produce and explain several social situations in response to real life video embedded in interactive software. Educators, parents and therapists can work with children using the program to target peer relationships, rules and rituals of the classroom, appropriate play at recess and appropriate lunchtime behavior. This program is an ideal tool to focus on conduct and activities at school! System Requirements Windows 95/98/2000/NT/Me operating system 600 MHz or higher 300 Megabytes of available Hard Drive Space 4x CD-ROM drive 16 bit color monitor 800/600 Resolution or better Video card compatibility Mouse

2002

Ages: 5 - 12

$198.00

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The Incredible 5-Point Scale Book
6546
Kari Dunn Buron, Mitzi Curtis

Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses.
In this must-have resource, 'two teachers from Minnesota' share their successful use of the simple concept of 5-point scales to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in emotion escalating reactions. Whether it is inappropriate touching, obsessions, yelling, hitting or making hurtful statements to classmates, this clearly illustrated book shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and, just as important, suggests alternative, positive behaviors at each level of the scale.

2003

Ages: 3 - 18

$42.00

Time to Talk Game
120878
Alison Schroeder

This fantastic board game will teach and develop essential language and social skills to pupils in Reception and Key Stage 1. The game is centred around Ginger Bear and is designed to complement the Time to Talk book. It is a fun and accessible way of helping younger children improve their communication skills and social interactions. Pupils have the opportunity to perform a variety of role-play activities, practice everyday actions and provide information about themselves. Through these enjoyable tasks they learn vital social skills including: listening, turn-taking, asking and answering questions, engaging in basic conversations, non-verbal communication, eye-contact and understanding feelings. Contains game board, 96 question cards, Ginger Bear toy, 4 Ginger Bear jigsaws, 4 playing pieces, die and teacher's notes.

2005

Ages: 4 - 8

$113.85