Social Communication – Every Child Can Learn

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The Missing Piece in Teaching Social Communication to Learners of ALL Abilities

JUST REVISED & UPDATED!

The Evidence-Based “How-To Guide” for Improving
Essential Social Skills in 4 Simple Steps

Course Prerequisite: Completion of

An Introduction to T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Free Webinar on the Home Page

Specific to improving social language skills, discover how to build a learner’s understanding of essential social communication skills.

See creative instructional tools using apps, free web tools, and easy-to-replicate low-tech solutions.

Walk away with:

T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Talk About Conversational Analysis Profile to pinpoint your learner’s discourse skill levels and identify goals and key objectives
A free Social Communication Resource CD containing multiple ready-to-print templates to boost your social language instruction to the next level
Creative lesson plans and sample I.E.P. objectives for social communication instruction
A resource library of instructional supports for social language games, literacy-based social supports, comic strips, social mapping tools, and more …

In-Person Training

Phyl Answers Questions from Participants About Learner Profiles in the Four Key Areas of Social Communication

During this in-person event – available in a private or public venue – participants:

Get the chance to have direct, in-person access to the author to review learner cases
Can touch, feel, and interface with real-life learner examples of T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Talk About Conversational Analysis Profile and integration of apps, Web tools, and low-tech teaching tools
Have the opportunity to take photos and/or videos of the multiple social communication tools demonstrated and displayed throughout this course
For an in-person event, the Teaching Social Communication Using T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Course is offered for an unlimited number of registrants.

Online Training

Get Direct Access to Phyl
No Matter Where You Live

The Teaching Social Communication Using T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Course is offered in an online format through a series of six 1-hour Web classes for an individual or group for cost-effective use of professional development funds.

The online format is scheduled in a live webinar series, with recorded Web courses to be offered in the future.

During the live online course, participants will:

Be shown examples of T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Talk About Conversational Analysis Profile of real-life learner cases
View photos and videos of instructional tools and methods for the structured teaching of social communication – incorporating apps, Web tools, and low-tech teaching tools for each of the modules of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.
Get the chance to have a live online dialogue with the author related to teaching social language skills in a structured question and answer block for each social communication class

In-Person Training Course Agenda

Morning Training Block: (A morning break will be schedule for 15 minutes)
8:00 AM	Registration
8:20 AM	Introduction & Opening Announcements
8:30 AM	The Research Behind the Structured Teaching of Social Communication & the Foundational Principles of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.
9:30 AM	Essential Language Skills & The Developmental Stages of Discourse
11:00 AM	T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Conversational Analysis Profile
12:00 PM	Lunch Break
Afternoon Training Block: (An afternoon break will be schedule for 15 minutes)
1:00 PM	The Learn About Module: Building Comprehension of Social Communication Concepts – Lessons & Instructional Tools
1:45 PM	The Read About Module: Literacy-Based Social Communication Supports – Lessons & Instructional Tools
2:30 PM	The Write About Module: Concrete Tracking & Mapping of Social Communication Concepts – Lessons & Instructional Tools
3:00 PM	The Talk About Module: Improving Expression of Social Communication Concepts – Lessons & Instructional Tools
4:00 PM	Course Ends

Online Course Agenda

Class 1:	The Research Behind the Structured Teaching of Social Communication & the Foundational Principles of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.
Class 2:	Essential Language Skills & The Developmental Stages of Discourse
Class 3:	T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Conversational Analysis Profile
Class 4:	The Learn About Module: Building Comprehension of Social Communication Concepts – Lessons & Instructional Tools
Class 5:	The Read About & Write About Modules: Lessons & Instructional Tools
Class 6:	The Talk About Module: Increasing Expression of Social Communication Concepts – Lessons & Instructional Tools

Learning Objectives

Participants will list four key research-based elements that are essential to social communication intervention.
Participants will name the four key components of interpersonal communication and give two examples of language skills for each of the four components.
Participants will list and define each of the four modules of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.
Participants will list and describe each of the five developmental stages of discourse related to conversation skills.
Participants will explain the clinical rationale of T.H.E. P.A.C.T. Talk About Conversational Analysis Profile and list two outcomes of the information gained from the analysis related to goal planning.
Participants will list two examples of instructional lessons and teaching tools for building comprehension of social communication concepts in the Learn About and Read About Modules of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.
Participants will list two examples of instructional lessons and teaching tools for improving expression of social communication concepts in the Write About and Talk About Modules of T.H.E. P.A.C.T.