Therapy Activity
Identifying emotions through videos
Appropriate Population:
- 4 years and up
- Mild delay or age-appropriate cognitive and language skills
Goal: Identifying others’ emotions
- Understanding emotion
- Perspective-taking
Steps:
- Search for an appropriate video (tip: search for short animated stories on youtube)
- Watch the video with the client.
- Pause the video at specific areas where strong emotions are shown
- Identify what emotions were portrayed in the video
Step-up:
- Discuss why the character(s) were feeling that emotion
Step down:
- AHA to provide fixed choices for what emotion was portrayed (ie: angry or confused)
Resources:
- Inside out: Guess the feeling
- Snack Attack: an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace at the train station
- The Present: A boy, who spends all his time playing video games, is given a special present by his mum
- Hair Love: A father attempts to do his daughter’s hair
- For the birds: A group of birds sitting on a powerline are visited by an unwanted visitor
- Bruised: A little girl tries to hide her bruise in class (Trigger warning: The video hints at domestic violence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3Z9msqnOg
Fora's Speech Pathology team
Nicole
Fora's Speech Pathology team