How do we help students to carryover and generalize the skills learned in Dramatic Pragmatics Groups?
We strongly believe that in order to effectively learn these pragmatic language skills and to be able to generalize them into everyday life, students must be taught a common language identifying these social concepts and rules. In addition, they must be provided with consistent visual cues and strategies which can be used across different environments to support the acquisition of these concepts. Whenever possible we like to consult to schools to provide them with the same tools and strategies used in our groups. Parent Workshops are also held so that parents are trained in the “language” and tools and symbols of Dramatic Pragmatics so that they too may carry them over to the home environment and reinforce the concepts. During our sessions, whether it be in a structured time at the table or an unstructured time downstairs in our “Dugout” room, we as language therapists are continually providing feedback to our students to help them identify, interpret and modify social behavior and soc
