Children with developmental delays or disabilities may need to have these skills taught in a more direct manner with manipulations of the environment and through the use of visual supports. The Feeling Buddies and Faces activity along with the filefolder face activity helps young children gain a better understanding of their own emotions and helps them identity the facial features and nonverbal cues needed to read emotions in others. The activity offers flexibility and can be modified based on the age and need of the classroom and can, also, provide higher level thinking with additional discussion relating to coping and problem solving strategies. My activity helps children practice and gain the social and emotion skills required to be successful in the classroom and enhance their innate social abilities as “emotional
Children with developmental delays or disabilities may need to have these skills taught in a more direct manner with manipulations of the environment and through the use of visual supports. The Feeling Buddies and Faces activity along with the filefolder face activity helps young children gain a better understanding of their own emotions and helps them identity the facial features and nonverbal cues needed to read emotions in others. The activity offers flexibility and can be modified based on the age and need of the classroom and can, also, provide higher level thinking with additional discussion relating to coping and problem solving strategies. My activity helps children practice and gain the social and emotion skills required to be successful in the classroom and enhance their innate social abilities as “emotional