Animated videos with little or no dialogue can be a tool for social learning and emotional development in students with social cognition challenges, including students on the autism spectrum. In this course, Anna Vagin, PhD, draws on her private practice and published works to show how carefully selected videos can support inferential thinking, emotional insight, and conversation skills, with a focus on nonverbal cues, emotional expression, and social motivation.
You'll learn how to integrate concepts such as "double think" (pausing to think again) and "biological motion" (movement with social intent) into your interventions, and why materials with social movement make sense for these students. Anna introduces tools such as visual annotations, character-based inference prompts, mental state verbs (e.g., think, remember, understand), and the Story Grammar Marker's Critical Thinking Triangle to help students interpret character emotions and intentions. She also addresses the role of repeated video viewings as students work through complex nonverbal and emotional content incrementally.
The course also covers building resilience through media, with methods for recognizing and managing uncomfortable emotions in socially challenging or ambiguous moments. Using story-based analysis, roleplay, real-time video dubbing, and the "conversation in real time" approach, you can coach students in developing internal language, emotion regulation, and narrative competence, along with reflecting on real-life parallels and coping strategies. Anna models both structured and spontaneous interventions throughout.
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You'll learn how to integrate concepts such as "double think" (pausing to think again) and "biological motion" (movement with social intent) into your interventions, and why materials with social movement make sense for these students. Anna introduces tools such as visual annotations, character-based inference prompts, mental state verbs (e.g., think, remember, understand), and the Story Grammar Marker's Critical Thinking Triangle to help students interpret character emotions and intentions. She also addresses the role of repeated video viewings as students work through complex nonverbal and emotional content incrementally.
The course also covers building resilience through media, with methods for recognizing and managing uncomfortable emotions in socially challenging or ambiguous moments. Using story-based analysis, roleplay, real-time video dubbing, and the "conversation in real time" approach, you can coach students in developing internal language, emotion regulation, and narrative competence, along with reflecting on real-life parallels and coping strategies. Anna models both structured and spontaneous interventions throughout.
Related Courses:
Play. Pause. Learn. Using Engaging Media & Games to Support Social Learning
YouTube for Social Learning: Teaching the Complexities of Cooperation
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