Social Skills
Fostering Connection
Social skills foster connection and belonging, and are imperative to the development and maintenance of relationships between young people and their peers, teachers and families.
Communicative competence in a social context can help to reduce the isolation Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and young people sometimes experience.
Intervention can support socials skills such as:
Awareness of self and others
Self regulation
Body language
Conversation skills
Friendship skills
Cooperation & negotiation
Understanding of how to share space
Understanding of how to be part of a group
Understanding of expected & unexpected behaviour
Social problem solving
Social inference
Assertiveness
