Pre-K’s Social Language & Play
Starting Tuesday, September 18th, 2018,
Tuesdays-Thursdays Each Week
1:00-1:30 in The Elementary Office Space
What are the building blocks necessary to develop social communication?
- Receptive (understanding) language: Comprehension of language.
- Expressive (using) language: The use of language through speech, sign or alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas.
- Pre-language skills: The ways in which we communicate without using words and include things such as gestures, facial expressions, imitation, joint attention and eye-contact.
- Executive functioning: Higher order reasoning and thinking skills.
- Self-regulation: The ability to obtain, maintain and change one’s emotion, behaviour, attention and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable manner.
What are the building blocks necessary to develop play?
- Planning and sequencing: The sequential multi-step task or activity performance to achieve a well-defined result.
- Executive functioning: Higher order reasoning and thinking skills.
- Body awareness: Knowing where your limbs are in space and how to move them in relation to the body and environment. In typical learners, this is an ‘automatic’ knowledge that makes learning easy.
- Problem solving: The identification of a challenge, including what the challenge is, what strategies could be used to overcome it, and the subsequent performance to overcome it.
- Social skills: Determined by the ability to engage in reciprocal interaction with others (either verbally or non-verbally), to compromise with others, and to be able to recognize and follow social norms.
- Receptive (understanding) language: Comprehension of language.
- Expressive (using) language: The use of language through speech, sign or alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas.
- Self-regulation: The ability to obtain, maintain and change one’s emotion, behaviour, attention and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable manner).