Understanding social language skills in daily interactions (pragmatic language)

This webinar looks at how to support understanding and development of pragmatic language across all key stages, but with more focus on key stage 2 and above.

It’s divided into 5 parts of 5 to 10 minutes each. We recommend you watch all five parts in order.

Part 1: What do we mean by pragmatic language?

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Part 2: What do we mean by non-verbal communication?

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Part 3: language for behaviour and emotions – theory to practice

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Part 4: inference, sarcasm, ambiguous and non-literal language

While watching part 4 of the webinar you’ll be asked to pause the webinar and watch a couple of other YouTube videos that illustrate the points being made.

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Here are the links to those other videos on YouTube mentioned in the 4th part of the webinar:

• Sarcasm Sign – The Big Bang Theory HD
• “Was That Sarcasm?” – Sheldon Cooper – The Big Bang Theory
• I haven’t had sex in six months – The Big Bang Theory

Part 5: Rounding off, target setting, and beyond therapy

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Downloadable resources:

• To therapy and beyond handout
• Receptive language part 3 pragmatic language handout