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What are "Social Skills?"
What are "Social Skills?"
Social skills are important life skills that often are overlooked. Social skills help your child interact successfully with peers, teachers, family members and people in the community.
Social skills are important life skills that often are overlooked. Social skills help your child interact successfully with peers, teachers, family members and people in the community.
Social skills can best be described as the ability to communicate and interact with others. Children with social skills deficits may exhibit difficulty with any of the following:
- Maintaining eye-contact with the speaker
- Taking turns in conversation
- Interrupting the speaker
- Initiating conversations
- Staying on the topic
- Getting to the point
- Taking the listener’s interest level into account when initiating and talking about a subject
- Realizing how what they say may be interpreted by others. (They may be a little too blunt and not recognize that they have hurt someone’s feelings).
- Using an appropriate tone of voice.
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