Many kiddos with Autism have difficulty understanding emotions, both in themselves and in others. One of the first steps to working on emotions and emotion words are to develop a simple matching activity. This is one I am working on for a little guy who is also working on increasing his length of utterance, hence why I included sentences and not just the word. You can print out two copies of these pictures and glue 4 of the pictures onto cardstock or a file folder and then cut out the others to match them to. Talk about the feelings while doing the activity and make sure to point out their faces--what their mouths are doing, eyes, etc. A fun follow-up activity is to try and have the child make the faces and/or imitate you making the faces so they can see it and experience it in real life. I always pair the feeling word/phrase with the question, "How is she feeling?" so they can learn an accurate answer to that question so hopefully one day soon if you ask THEM that question they will be able to tell you how they are feeling!
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