Social Initiation

Making and keeping personal relationships involves initiating conversations with strangers, acquaintances, and friends, as well as knowing when and how to work and play with others.

• Find friends with similar interests

• Determine who is available and best to work with in a situation

• Identify how to best initiate working with a partner

• Decide between initiating with a group, a single student, or playing by yourself

• Be positive and appropriate when asking about an unfamiliar activity

• Positively initiate with a group after being rejected

• Interrupt and leave a conversation at the appropriate times

• Ask to join a game already in progress

• Be flexible when the rules of a game change

• Initiate a conversation appropriately

• Understand the importance of making and keeping friends