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Social Language Development Scenes Elementary for Group Therapy

The SES Speech-Language Pathologists are looking to receive this very engaging and helpful therapy package.

These Social Language Development Scenes provides stimulating, effective social language therapy in a mixed group setting can be challenging. Social Language Development Scenes Elementary for Group Therapy presents real-world situations that engage all students. These 50 picture scenes illustrate a wide variety of everyday situations that provide tons of opportunities to elicit social language.

The variety of stimulus items on the back of each card reflects the skills assessed in The Social Language Development Test Elementary and Social Language Training Elementary:
• Facial Expressions & Gestures • Supporting Friends
• Multiple Interpretations • Respecting Others
• Identifying & Solving Problems • Interpersonal Negotiation
• Making Inferences • Reading Between the Lines

The scenes present social situations in five ways: one person in a social situation with broad context; one person in two similar situations with subtle differences and limited context; two people in a social context; three people in a social
context; and two separate scenes of the same people in the same social context, but with subtle emotional differences.

The scenes and flexible stimulus items can be used in any way to best support your therapy goals, but here is a suggested
sequence of presentation:

• Show the picture scene to the group and ask students to take a moment to consider what is happening in the picture.
• Present the Facial Expressions & Gestures stimulus items to focus attention on nonverbal clues and emotions present
in the scene.
• Ask students to provide a brief narrative to explain what they think is happening in the picture.
• Read the suggested story in the What’s Going On? box.
• Present the Dialogue stimulus items to encourage students to give voice to the characters in the scene.
• Present any of the remaining stimulus items on the card that address your therapy needs. Note: The final item in the
gray box will always challenge students to connect a past experience with an aspect of the targeted social situation.

After students have completed relevant stimulus items, you might encourage them to role-play the situation as it is presented or extend it to what they think might happen next. However you choose to use Social Language Development Scenes Elementary for Group Therapy, we hope you’ll find these situations and stimulus items important tools to continue enriching the social language skills of your students.