Unlocking Social Potential
Are you planning lessons to teach students about nonverbal communication and tone of voice? This blog post is for you if you are teaching nonverbal communication skills to students with autism or social communication challenges. For example: recognizing facial expressions and identifying and using tone of voice. Help your students understand and recognize the common emotions we communicate through our… Read More
Updated 1/23 Are you teaching sarcasm to your students and clients during speech therapy or counseling? It’s a nuanced topic and people have strong opinions about the its place in the world as a communication tool. Some SLPs and parents wonder if detecting sarcasm is a skill we should (or shouldn’t) be teaching students with autism during our speech therapy… Read More
Social Skills Conversation Skills – Responses that form Connections. updated 1/23 Do you focus on how to have meaningful conversations in your social skills or speech therapy sessions? How can we teach our students to have meaningful conversation skills? You know, conversations that don’t just bounce around on the surface but actually help them form friendships and work towards enhanced… Read More
Do you teach social rules or social norms by community setting? The experience of one student Recently, one of my high school teletherapy students faced a manifestation determination because this student had exposed his/her private parts during an online class. He/she gave no thought to the fact that they were on camera and what camera view the students in the… Read More