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Gestures, Signs, and Facial Cues

Being able to use, interpret, or react to the actions of others to communicate feelings and messages. These messages can be positive (high five, thumbs up) or negative (scowl, eye roll).

Activity List(s)

Visual Schedule Cards

Goal Bank

  • Given an emotion in a picture, video, or story, Jovita will demonstrate comprehension of non-verbal cues by listing at least 4 cues such as, facial expression nuances, tone of voice changes, body stance nuances, and/or gestural cues that were present for that given emotion with 90% accuracy across 4 sessions to improve language and pragmatic comprehension. 3
  • Leonard will identify social "hidden rules" with 80% accuracy, given minimal cueing, across 3 of 5 sessions. 0
  • Given a field of 4 or more picture icons, Genia will request a highly desired item with 80% accuracy 4 times during a session without tactile assistance to increase pragmatic and language skills. 3
  • Given a social situation, Jason will identify how their actions make others feel, with 80% accuracy, given moderate cueing across 3 of 5 sessions. 0

Resources

  • Popsicle Emotions Book B&W preview

    Popsicle Emotions Book B&W

    Sara Lowczyk

    An emotion coloring book story to work on words "I" "feel" and identify emotions.

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  • Unicorn Emotions preview

    Unicorn Emotions

    Breann Voytko

    Who doesn't love unicorns? Practice labeling emotions with these fun unicorn faces

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  • How Do You Feel Today? preview

    How Do You Feel Today?

    Sara Lowczyk

    A small visual support for emotions.

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  • Emoji Token Reward System preview

    Emoji Token Reward System

    Jessica Lenden-Holt

    6 emoji token reward system "I am working for" visual 4 sample photos of rewards/motivators

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  • 16 Gestures By 16 Months preview

    16 Gestures By 16 Months

    Bethany Ayer

    Research has found the development of gestures is a language predictor. From 9-16 months, children should be learning at least two additional gestures per month. Here is a helpful guide of typical ...

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  • YETI, SET, GO! Game Companion For Language preview

    YETI, SET, GO! Game Companion For Language

    Breann Voytko

    Use this resource to target the following Language skills: -Regular and Irregular Past Tense Verbs -Future Tense Verbs -Regular and Irregular Plurals -Object Function -Emotions -Answering WH Questions

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