Learning to communicate with other people is perhaps the most important
learning children do. Children with social communication problems may
have trouble picking up the crucial skills of interacting and
communicating with their peers, which can have more serious implications
later on in life.
This resource will help teachers, teaching assistants and therapists to
develop and improve the social skills of their younger pupils; provides
sets of easily accessible, verbal and non-verbal games and activities to
encourage social interaction; provides a clear rationale to the games to
help the teacher or teaching assistant really get to grips with how and
why these activities can help; provides a structured approach to pupils'
social development for pupils in their early and primary years which has
been tried, tested and proved to be effective; and includes assessment
forms and monthly and daily planning sheets