The COMMUNICATION Depot

Social Skills/ Pragmatics Groups: Weekly & Biweekly sessions are offered during the school year or for Summer Term. Students learn age-appropriate social skills through conversation practice with others, role-play, games, songs, stories & discussion, and lessons. Goals include: Whole body listening, eye contact, manners, conversational skills, staying on and maintaining the topic, following directions, relationship skills, conflict management, & emotional skills, including how to calm oneself down. A variety of materials are used, such as Simply Social 7 at School, Michelle G. Winner's Social Thinking curriculum, Social Language Traing: Elementary and Adolescent, Say & Do Positive Pragmatics games, Tuned In To Learning Social Skills & Pragmatics songs & lessons, & songs written by Nita Stillwell.