Social scenarios

Appropriate Population: 

• School aged (5 years and up)
• Moderate or mild delay or age-appropriate cognitive and language abilities

Goal:

• Identifying others’ emotions
• Identifying others’ thoughts
• Problem solving
• Perspective taking
• Responding to others’ social cues

Steps:

1. Take turns choosing a social scenario from the list below.
2. Discuss the questions and what the client would do in this scenario. 

Step-up: 

• Discuss a time the client might be in this social situation and what they might do.

Step down:

• Identify the thoughts and feelings conveyed in the social scenarios.

Resources:

• Social scenarios (https://www.home-speech-home.com/social-scenarios.html)