IMPROVING SOCIAL SKILLS

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What are social skills?

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Skills we use everyday to interact and communicate with others.

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Why are social skills important?

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To enable an individual to maintain positive interactions with others.

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What is the building block necessary to sustain effort and doing activities without distractions and being able to hold that effort long enough to get the task done?

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Attention and concentration

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What is the building block necessary to develop the ability to obtain, maintain and change one's emotion behaviour, attention, and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable manner?

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Self-regulation

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What is the building block necessary to develop voluntary engagement in self-motivated activities that are normally associated with pleasure and enjoyment?

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Play skill

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What is the building block necessary to develop the ways in which we communicate without using words and include things such as gestures, facial expressions, imitation, joint attention and eye-contact?

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Pre-language skills

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What is the building block necessary to develop the use of language through speech, sign or alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas?

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Expressive

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What is the building block necessary to develop comprehension of language?

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Receptive

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What is the building block necessary to develop higher order reasoning and thinking skills?

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Executive functioning

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What is the building block necessary to develop the sequential multi-step task or activity performance to achieve a well-defined result?

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Planning and sequencing