Body Talk: Teaching Students with Disabilities About Body Language [Multiple-component retail product]

Crissey, a special education teacher and autism consultant, shows educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents how to teach children and teens with autism and other developmental disabilities the language of nonverbal communication using role playing, games, art activities, videos, worksheets, quizzes, and charts. She first discusses how to teach children to understand emotions, then covers facial expressions, posture, body orientation, eye gaze, personal space, touching, and gestures, and interpreting them within everyday situations. She only provides basic information on facial expressions, which are covered in detail in her earlier book, Getting the Message: Learning to Read Facial Expressions. The CD-ROM includes printable activity sheets provided in the book. There is no bibliography. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Children and teens with autism and other developmental disabilities can be taught the language of nonverbal communication with the practical strategies developed by veteran special education teacher Pat Crissey. More than 100 activities break down elements of body language into teachable components.Through role playing, games, art activities, watching video clips, and using worksheets, quizzes, and charts, she shows busy educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents how to teach body language: Facial expressions Posture Body orientation Eye gaze Personal space Touching Gestures Choose from a range of scenarios to demonstrate to students such subtleties as knowing when a conversation is ending, what excitement looks like, or how to acknowledge someone with raised eyebrows. The companion CD-ROM includes many of the activities to print out for use in the classroom or for practice at home.