Talkabout for Adults

Description

It has been particularly aimed at adults with an intellectual disability (learning disability) or older children with special needs. It has been adapted from the Talkabout for Children: developing self-awareness and self-esteem book to be suitable for an older audience. This means that some of the activities are almost identical but a number of them have been adapted to be more appropriate. There are also some new activities such as the ‘A book about me…’ which enables the adults to make up a book over the course of the sessions that will summarise some keys personal facts. This can work well as an addition to a communication passport or equivalent, or can stand alone as an alternative.

TALKABOUT for Adults is a stand-alone resource with approximately a year’s worth of activities to develop self-awareness and self-esteem. It has 50 activities to do with adults and it has been successfully piloted at Speaking Space. It includes:

A short assessment of self-awareness and self-esteem

A year’s worth of work on self-awareness and self-esteem including 50 activities and some worksheets

Practical suggestions to make your group work successful including 25 group cohesion activities, a plan for intervention, and forms for monitoring and evaluation

This resource continues to use the TALKABOUT hierarchical approach to teaching skills, that is, basic self-awareness skills are taught prior to more complex skills such as social skills and friendship skills. This also means that this resource is designed to be used logically from topic 1 through to topic 8. Most of the activities are more suited to working in a group setting but some of them can be adapted for one-to-one work.

The Complete Talkabout range consists of:

• Talkabout Book – A Social Communication Skills Package
• Talkabout Activities Book – Develop Social Communication Skills
• Talkabout Relationships Book – Building Self-Esteem & Relationship Skills
• Talkabout for Teenagers Book (incl. CD) – Developing Social and Communication Skills
• Talkabout for Adults: Developing Self Awareness and Self Esteem (Book & CD)
• Talkabout DVD (incl. A5 Booklet) – Social Communication Skills
• Talkabout Assessment Tool (CD-Rom)
• Talkabout for Children 1: Developing Self Awareness and Self Esteem (Book & CD)
• Talkabout for Children 2: Developing Social Skills (Book & CD)
• Talkabout for Children Book 3: Developing Friendship Skills (Book & CD)
• Talkabout Game – Developing Self-Esteem, Social Skills and Friendship Skills
• Talkabout Posters – Set of 16 A3 Posters
• Talkabout Cards – Self Awareness Activities
• Talkabout Cards – Group Cohesion
• Talkabout Cards – Who Am I?