Middle & High School Speech Therapy Conversation Skills Curriculum

This product provides LOTS of social skills activities for mixed groups and multiple goals at the middle and high school level. This product could be utilized in speech therapy groups and mental health social skills groups. This product addresses expressive language, receptive language, and pragmatic language skills for middle and high school students. This product targets interpersonal, social, workplace, and life communication skills for middle and high school students. GREAT for in person sessions AND teletherapy/distance learning sessions. This product directly teaches conversational skills. 

There are 15 conversation skill teaching cards. The conversational skill teaching cards address initiating conversations, maintaining conversations and ending conversations. The following skill areas are addressed: 

• Gaining communication partner’s attention
• Greeting
• Introducing topic of communication
• Importance of eye contact and body positioning
• Importance of nonverbal communication
• Importance of personal space
• Questions and statements
• Making comments
• Turn-taking
• On-topic communication
• Preferred and non-preferred topics
• Active listening
• Wrapping up the conversation
• Farewell

There are 31 activity pages for practicing the learned conversation skills (listed above) and 27 pages of functional communication scripts!! The following communication scripts are included:

• Meeting a new person
• Greeting a friend
• Consoling a friend
• Saying sorry
• Accepting an apology
• Making a phone call
• Taking a phone message
• Scheduling an appointment
• Mailing a package
• Saying thank you
• Saying you're welcome
• Asking a friend to hang out
• Asking a friend to the dance
• Telling a friend they hurt your feelings
• Ordering food
• Advocating at school
• Asking for help at the grocery store
• Asking for directions
• Interviewing for a job
• Taking a customer's order
• Asking for vacation time at work
• Calling in sick at work
• Calling 911
• Asking for help at work
• Calling about your utility bill
• Asking about the bathroom
• Write your own script

Also, included is a 10 page role-play conversation game!

In total, there are 100 pages of teaching material in this single resource. This resource will provide materials and activities for teaching conversational skills for an entire school year!