Social Skills
-Tend to have profound difficulties with social skills
-Major barrier to inclusion
-Have a hard time reading body language and facial expressions
-BODY LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
-Make little to no eye contact when having a conversation
-Ex.: Circle time activity
-EYE CONTACT ACTIVITY
-Have a hard time seeing situations from another point of view
-Tend to have inappropriate physical proximity
-Johnny at Blossomland
-Difficulties interacting with peers, as well as adults
-Difficulties understanding metaphors, sarcasm, etc.
-Tend to take everything literally
-Ex.: "It's raining cats and dogs."
-May adversely affect their education and may impede on inclusion
-Tend to withdraw socially or turn to negative behaviors
-Impairments in joint attention skills
-Significant impairments in object imitation, facial imitation, and imitation of body movements
-Deficits in symbolic play
-Correlated to both receptive and expressive language ability
-Major barrier to inclusion
-Have a hard time reading body language and facial expressions
-BODY LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
-Make little to no eye contact when having a conversation
-Ex.: Circle time activity
-EYE CONTACT ACTIVITY
-Have a hard time seeing situations from another point of view
-Tend to have inappropriate physical proximity
-Johnny at Blossomland
-Difficulties interacting with peers, as well as adults
-Difficulties understanding metaphors, sarcasm, etc.
-Tend to take everything literally
-Ex.: "It's raining cats and dogs."
-May adversely affect their education and may impede on inclusion
-Tend to withdraw socially or turn to negative behaviors
-Impairments in joint attention skills
-Significant impairments in object imitation, facial imitation, and imitation of body movements
-Deficits in symbolic play
-Correlated to both receptive and expressive language ability