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The “art” of social conversation is a very abstact concept. How do we teach concreate learners, such as children with Autism Spectrum Disorders appropriate social language skills? By making it concrete of course! When developing an understanding of what appropriate social conversation “looks like” there are some rules and structures we can begin to develop to assist children with autism to develop appropriate conversation skills. Consider the following objectives when looking at building conversation skills in your child:
1) Develop rules, examples, and a lot of practice on how to initiate conversations with others. Teach your child to understand the intent of the conversation to assist in developing strategies to initiate the conversation. For example, when the intent is to build a relationship with the person we might consider learning more about the person or talking about things the person themself is interested in. When initiating a conversation in this type of a scenario we would teach a child to develop initiation statements based of interests of the conversation partner, or initiating based-off of asking questions to learn more about the conversation partner.
2) Additionally, consider directly teaching your child strategies to maintain and join conversations. Developing your child’s ability to ask questions and make statements within conversations.
3) If your child has perseverative topics of conversation consider developing his/her ability to monitor engagement in perseverative topics and discriminating when it is “ok” to engage in perseverative topics, and when it is not. Additionally, work on developing other topics of conversations that may be of interest to peers.
4) Developing your child’s ability to ask questions to engage and expand conversations may also be a critical skill when developing his/her social language skills.
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders can thrive under learning conditions that provide structure to developing abstract learning concepts.
AmyShymansky @ October 7, 2009
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The hardest part is initiating converation. I will sometimes talk to people where a formal structure supports it (shop assistants etc. I will reply if spoken to and I speak to my family. I have no idea how to be interested in someone elses interests and cannot feign interest.Generally I prefer just to listen to conversations that are happening or not if I don’t feel like it. I often think of things I would like to say but cannot say them if I have not first been spoken to by or introduced to the other person.
Thanks for sharing this with us! I agree…. initiating is a more difficult task. Sometimes we work on developing a persons to initiate a conversation based off what their conversational partner might be interested in speaking about. Teaching strategies to assist in gathering info on this person by observing the person, reflecting on past experiences with the person, listening to the topics of conversations they share, etc. For example, if a conversation partner was wearing a Chicago Bears hat, we ask questions, make statements about the Chicago Bears. Or if last time we saw the person they told us they were getting a new car, we could follow up and ask questions about the new car. Developing an ability to initiate a conversation with someone based of topics they might want to talk about can be helpful in successfully initiating conversations with others. Love hearing from you! Join us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skill-Sprout/281297230103 so we can stay in touch!
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