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Can We Talk?: Building Social Communication Skills Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. SPED*NET Wilton Norwalk SPED Partners Norwalk Public Schools February 28, 2013 (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved.

Can we talk?! (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 2 February 2013

Successful Communicators Determine… Conversational partner’s needs Demands of the situation Appropriate language rules & social mores Emotional issues in the situation Degree & duration of attention needed (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 3 February 2013

Essentials for Communicative Competence Good language skills Good social cognition Good executive functions (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 4 February 2013

Language and Cognition (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Memory Executive Functions Experience Attention Information Processing Affect COGNITION LANGUAGE Form Use Content Slide 5 February 2013

Language Content, Form, Use Language Content –SOMETHING to say Language Use – a REASON to say it Language Form – the MEANS to say it (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 6 February 2013

Language Use - Pragmatics Use of language in social contexts – Social – cultural experiences that shape current relationships – Contexts – anything that gives meaning to what is said and done Communicative functions or intentions Presupposition Discourse (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 7 February 2013

Framework of Social Communicative Competence Social Communicative Competence Social Communicative Behaviors Higher Order Executive Functions Language  Social Cognition (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 8 February 2013

Social Communication Deficits: Language Domain Weak vocabulary knowledge and use Word retrieval difficulties Comprehension difficulties Poor comprehension and construction of complex sentences Lack of recognition or weak knowledge of grammatical forms (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 9 February 2013

Social Communication Deficits: Cognitive Linguistic Domain Social judgment Affective awareness Perceptual problems Memory deficits Attentional issues Rate & efficiency of information processing Ability to integrate and synthesize World knowledge and its organization Organizational abilities (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 10 February 2013

Components of Social Communication Verbal aspects Paralinguistic aspects Nonverbal aspects (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 11 February 2013

Components of Social Communication: Verbal Aspects Topic control rules Turn taking rules Lexical Selections rules Stylistic variations (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 12 February 2013

Components of Social Communication: Paralinguistic Aspects Intelligibility Vocal intensity Vocal quality Prosody Fluency (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 13 February 2013

Components of Social Communication: Nonverbal Aspects Physical proximity Physical contacts Body posture Foot/leg and arm/hand movements Gestures Facial expression and eye gaze (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 14 February 2013

Social Communication: Behavioral Dimensions Hostile/coercive Prosocial/engaged Assertive Passive/disengaged Adult seeking Irrelevant (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 15 February 2013

So many skills, so little time… A sample of specific conversational behaviors – Entering an interaction – Responding to questions – Asking questions – Developing appropriate topics – Providing acknowledgment – Complimenting conversational partners – Resolving conflicts – Negotiating – Compromising (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 16 February 2013

So, can we talk about what to do already!?! Start with assessment First, pick a skill or two – Treatment varies by need – One size does not fit all Continuum of intervention contexts – Teacher mediated interventions – Peer mediated interventions – Clinician mediated interventions Formats for intervention – Instruction and Modeling – Behavioral rehearsal and Feedback (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 17 February 2013

Happiness is having a friend… (c)2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 18 February 2013

Can We Talk?: Building Social Communication Skills Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. SPED*NET Wilton Norwalk SPED Partners Norwalk Public Schools February 28, 2013 (c) 2013 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved.