21 Social Skills Activities for Speech Therapy

Social communication and pragmatic language is a critical skill in language development, cognitive growth, and communication skills.

Social communication includes social interaction, social cognition, pragmatics, and language processing. This includes body language, facial expressions, gestures, communicative intent, and topic maintenance. In short, it means knowing what to say, when to say it, and how to say it.

Here are social skills activities to download and use now! Scroll down to find teen social skills activities for older kids, as well as free social skills activities.

Social Skills Activities

SCHOOL-THEMED SOCIAL SCENARIOS – School-themed social skills for elementary kids. Work on a variety of pragmatics in social skills groups or one-on-one. These interactive activities will give your students control of the situations and questions presented. Includes 72 social situations, plus options to include custom-made ones depending on your student’s needs.

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STORES SOCIAL SKILLS INTERACTIVE BOOK – Target community social skills, as well as categories, inferences, wh questions, pronouns, sentence formulation, following directions and more. Includes six stores and the book allows you to flip through the scenes and move the characters & objects onto the pages

CONVERSATION PROMPTS – 200 conversation prompts to use with your students! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Use in speech teletherapy! Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.

BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT – Use the scenes and cards to identify and discuss safe and respectful behaviors and how our choices affect others. Includes discussion questions, strategies, and a social story.

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GOING TO THE DOCTOR AND DENTIST SOCIAL STORIES – Use these interactive books in speech therapy and more as social stories in preparation for going to the dentist and doctor, as well as discussing dental health and body health.

THOUGHT BUBBLE INFERENCES – Work on making inferences, problem solving, identifying emotions, feelings, empathy, what you should think versus say, and conversational skills. This activity can be open-ended or structured if used with the supports.

Social Emotional Activities

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL INTRODUCTION – Work on social emotional concepts with these printable, multilevel worksheets! Perfect for introducing feelings in repetitive, consistent activities that keep kids engaged. No prep, print and go pages (or just open on your device)! These pages are left open ended for flexibility for what emotion words you want to target and how difficult you want it to be.

EMOTIONS – Social emotional learning activities for kids. Help students identify and express their emotions, as well as others feelings.

EMOTIONS NO PRINT, INTERACTIVE PDF – Digital social emotional activities for identifying and expressing emotions and feelings with various expressive and receptive activities! Great for speech teletherapy!

Teen Social Skills Activities

TEEN COMMUNITY SOCIAL SCENARIOS – Social skills community activities for middle school and high school! Includes 80 social situations, plus options to include custom-made ones depending on your student’s needs.

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TEEN TRAVELING SOCIAL SCENARIOS – Use this thorough product designed to work on various social skills. These interactive activities will give your students control of the situations and questions presented. Includes 80 social situations, plus options to include custom-made ones depending on your student’s needs.

TEEN CONVERSATION PROMPTS – 100 conversation prompts to use with your students! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Use in speech teletherapy! Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.

TEEN THOUGHT BUBBLE INFERENCES – Practice social skills: making inferences, identifying emotions, empathy, what you should think versus say, and conversational skills! This activity can be open-ended or structured if used with the supports. Pictures are appropriate for older students.

Social Skills Development

SPEECH-LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT HANDOUTS –This is a “must-have SLP resource” including in-depth hierarchies and charts + parent-friendly explanations and their research. Use them in IEP meetings, as posters for your room, caregiver handouts, to write goals, and more! Stop worrying about memorizing milestones or frantically searching the internet for development charts.

AGE MILESTONES HANDOUTS – These reference pages provide an overview of speech and language milestones at different ages. Great for concise, easy-to-understand handouts to give to parents based on age!

Free Social Skills Resources

FREE SOCIAL SKILLS RESOURCE LISTS – Discover ideas to plan and execute social skills therapy! Includes six pages of information and resources: types of social skills, developmental stages, websites, apps, and games.

FREE “WHEN I’M FRUSTRATED” SOCIAL STORY – A social narrative mini-book on handling frustration with calming strategies. A great way to discuss feelings and appropriate ways to express them!

FREE CONVERSATION PROMPTS – Conversation prompts or ice breakers to use with your students in speech therapy or the classroom! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.