"Manga Moods" - 40 faces and 80 phrases nice little book, could be useful for discussing emotions/face reading etc.

[TotalChaos]

www.amazon.co.uk/Manga-Moods-40-Faces-Phrases/dp/4921205132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=124083865 6&sr=8-1

goes through the range of emotions, illustrated with manga faces.

what a lovely looking book, just started doing emotions - perfect. thanks totalchaos

Eek, had a look at several of them, doesn't mean a thing to me. No idea what the faces are doing or why those faces mean those emotions! Might work for those with an ASD who are less face-blind than me, I guess?

DS2 wouldn't be able to read them either - and I find them hard as well!

oh sorry guys, guess it wasn't a helpful recommendation then.

Might be very helpful for some, I'd say

Pick emotion faces really carefully.
It's a very difficult concept.
Oh, and test on NT friend first.
You will be amazed at the different interpretations.

I wonder if there are two kinds of face-blindness Amber.

I, like you, don't recognise individuals very well (when teaching, I had to create code-words and focus on unusual features of a face).

But I can read emotions.

Total, does your lad struggle to read your emotions/to name emotions like happy/sad/scared/surprised?

Sorry Total - didn't mean to suggest it wouldn't be helpful for some people
Was just agreeing with Amber about the face blindness really...

thanks for the replies ladies, again sorry it's not such a good find after all.

lingle - I'ld say DS is OK with the basic expressions, I think it's vocab as much as as anything that I need to expand on.

May I ask how he's getting on at school Total? I tend to think of my DS2 as being quite similar to how your DS was at 3.

touch wood pretty well. classes are small and well supported, and they are used to kids with language problems and because school is in deprived area the staff seem nurturing and not afraid of hard work iyswim. Because school is only just over 100 kids, break times aren't a problem - it's well organised and well supervised. Not had parents evening since end Sept, but my gut feeling is I'd say he's a bit behind with reading and writing and he's fine with numeracy. he doesn't get any 1-1 time, but I know last year he did some small group work with TAs to help listening/phonological skills. Not sure if that's happening this year.

btw by your descriptions your DS2 sounds more able than my DS was at a similar age, and to have made progress quicker with language.

not more able, just a bit different I guess.

Did your lad have problems being a bit overwhelmed in group settings at the 3.5-4.0 stage Total?

That's our key problem really. But nursery teacher respects it and lets him go off and have a moment away from the gabbling girls.

I would say it was after 4.0 that things started to come together for him in terms of groups etc (thinking of things like being able to take him to stuff like jo jingles etc). Possibly he was set back by being at a crap nursery that didn't really deal with his receptive language delay well enough.

Let's hope history repeats itself then as he has 4.0 to 5.0 as his second nursery year.

Your lad does seem to be doing well but clearly you are still concerned.