Social Communication Intervention
Social skills are the skills we use to communicate and interact with each other, both verbally and non-verbally, through gestures, body language and our personal appearance.
Social communication skills refer to all of the skills we need when using language to communicate and engage in conversations with other.
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Social communication encompasses the following skills:
- Using language for a range of functions, e.g. to provide information; to question; to negotiate; to suggest; to clarify.
- Conversational skills, e.g. starting and finishing conversations; maintaining a topic of conversation; taking turns in a conversation.
- Understanding shared and assumed knowledge, i.e. how much information the listener needs to understand.
- Understanding and using non-verbal communication skills, e.g. eye contact, facial expression, gesture, proximity and distance.
- Understanding implied meaning
How to Identify?
- Delay in reaching language milestones
- Little interest in social interactions
- Going off-topic or monopolizing conversations
- Not adapting language to different listeners (talks the same way to an adult as to a friend)
- Not adapting language to different situations (speaks the same way in the classroom as on the playground)
- Difficulty making inferences and understanding things that are implied, but not stated explicitly
- Not giving background information when speaking to an unfamiliar person
- Not understanding how to properly greet people, request information or gain attention
- Tendency to be overly literal and not understand riddles and sarcasm
- Trouble understanding nonverbal communication, such as facial expressions