Getting the Message: Learning to Read Facial Expressions
by Pat Crissey and Attainment Company
Facial expressions for social interactions
Most of us are aware of the importance of non-verbal communication, regardless of whether or not we have communicative difficulties. But for those who do, they become even more important. Especially when you consider that 55% of emotional meaning is conveyed with facial expression, body language and gestures while only 7% is expressed through words.
Getting the Message, by the same author of Picture Directions, Pat Crissey, looks at non-verbal communication as a highly complex and subtle language, but an essential one that students must master. To this end, the book provides facial expression cards and written scenarios for use in assessments as well as in teaching activities.
The book teaches these five questions:
- can the student “read” facial expressions?
- does the student use appropriate facial expressions?
- does the student get the emotions that go with the expressions?
- can the student read and display basic emotions, happy, sad, scared?
- can the student read and display more subtle emotions than these?
Students learn to “read” the expressions on the cards and in the scenarios and once mastered, to generalise this knowledge.
The book covers a too-often neglected area that will help your students more effectively read critical social interactions and situations.
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Covered spiral bound book, 177 pgs., © 2007 with Win/Mac CD with printable PDF
Getting the Message: Learning to Read Facial Expressions is targeted at the following age ranges:
- All Ages
Getting the Message: Learning to Read Facial Expressions is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Communication
- Life Skills
- Resource preparation
- SOSE
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