Table 2.

Outline of the adolescents adapted version of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (A-CPT)

Training session	Designed activities
1 Introduction and overall communicative ability	Introduction to the aims and structure of the A-CPT programme; setting-up of the working group by a self-introduction of each participant, including the description of any perceived difficulty in daily living communication Overview of the communicative-pragmatic ability, via video clips and role-playing tasks, based on daily living situations and depicting all the communicative expressing means
2 Linguistic ability	Video clips and role-playing based on the linguistic expressive modality
3 Extralinguistic ability	Video clips and role-playing based on the gestural modality
4–5 Paralinguistic ability	Video clips, facial expression recognition, tone of voice tasks, role-playing;
6–7 Social appropriateness	Video clips and role-playing focused on social appropriateness and communicative adequacy in different contexts
8 Conversational ability	Video clips, role-playing and exercises focused on the use of conversational rules (i.e., turn-taking topic management)
9 Phone conversation	Audio clips and role-playing focused on telephone conversational rules (i.e., voice only, no paralinguistic and gestural clues, available in live interactions)
10–11 Social ability	Video clips and role-playing focused on the ability to formulate meta-representations with respect to one’s own and others’ mental states
12 Narrative ability and planning	Picture-description task, aimed at eliciting story-telling by providing an adequate amount and type of information
13–14 Overall communicative ability	Video clips and role-playing focused on the overall pragmatic effectiveness, expressed through all the modalities constituting communicative competence
15 Conclusion, awareness and feedback	Conclusions and feedback about the progresses observed along A-CPT i.e., video recording of the salient moments along the sessions where the improvements could be detected were shown to each participant during the group session