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Re: Interpersonal skills

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Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 08:14:07 -0500
Remote Name: 68.63.222.213

Comments

Alan, it is nice to meet you and thanks for the great observation and question. I'm going to echo Gary a little here (wonderful answer to the question Gary!). I think there are many PWS who lack the experiences of interacting socially and due to fears and anxiety pertaining to the exposure of "Creating" a dialogue with people, they have challenges carrying on a conversation. For example, if you fear /w/ words, you might tend to avoid asking people questions like: "What brings you here?", "What kind of movies do you like?", "Where do you go for pizza?", "Where do you come from?", "Why do you like pumpkin seeds?", or "What is your occupation?". Without these vital words of "what, where, why, when" a conversation can only go so far. As SLPs we have the skills and training to help clients with "pragmatics" (social use of language). During therapy we can bring in novel people (with client's consent of course) and practice these skills along with desensitizing the client to feared sounds or words. These are just a very few ideas related to this great observation and question you pose Alan! Keep asking questions! With compassion and kindness, Scott


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