This practical handbook is designed to foster successful  social strategies for children aged 5 to 12. The book covers the theories behind the games in accessible language and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities, active and passive, verbal and non verbal for different sized groups.  Play is a natural childhood activity and a child's imagination is a valuable inner resource which can be used to foster creative thinking, healthy self-esteem and the ability to interact successfully with others. The games in this book can provide a rich learning experience that goes beyond the teaching of skills as a way of masking social ineptness and opens up the possibilty of a much deeper learning instead - the type of learning that leads to socially intelligent interactions and promotes  feelings of personal fulfilment and self-respect.

The author is a speech and language therapist with over 20 years experience.

Author : Deborah M. Plummer  paperback 176 pages  pub 2008