Therapy Activity

Identifying emotions in everyday life

Last Updated: 30 October 2024

Appropriate Population:

  • Any age
  • Any level of communication and cognitive ability

 

Goal:

  • Identifying others’ and own emotions through facial expressions and body language
  • Understanding emotions

         

Steps:

  1. Incorporate this activity with a pre-existing activity that the client is doing (ie: playing, eating, getting dressed, having a conversation)
  2. During the pre-existing activity, ask the client to identify what emotions they and you are feeling. 
  3. They can use the feeling faces chart template PDF as a visual to help identify and express which emotion they and you are feeling. 

 

Step up: 

  • Discuss why each person is feeling that emotion.
  • Remove visual. Clients need to use their own words to describe their emotions. 

 

Step down:

  • AHA to provide narrow down fixed choices when identifying emotions (provide 2 or 4 options)
  • Client to only identify one person’s emotion (AHA’s or client’s)– whichever is easier for the client to identify.s

 

Resources:

  • Feeling faces chart template PDF
Nicole
Fora's Speech Pathology team

Nicole

Fora's Speech Pathology team

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