IMPROVING SOCIAL SKILLS

What are social skills?

• Skills we use everyday to interact and communicate with others.

• A knowledge on how to properly behave in a multicultural setting.

• An ability to communicate effectively.

Why are social skills important?

• To acknowledge cultural diversities.

• To enable an individual to maintain positive interactions with other.

• To promote self-isolation.

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?

• Play skill

• Attention and concentration

• Executive functioning

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?

• Executive functioning

• Self-regulation

• Planning and sequencing

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

• Play skill

• Receptive

• Planning and sequencing

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?

• Receptive

• Expressive

• Pre-language skills

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?

• Expressive

• Planning and sequencing

• Play skill

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

• Receptive

• Executive functioning

• Planning and sequencing

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

• Executive functioning

• Attention and concentration

• Expressive

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

• Self-regulation

• Receptive

• Planning and sequencing