Entering Conversations - A High School Social Skills Activity
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Entering Conversations
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Entering Conversations
This handout outlines the recommended steps to enter a conversation, including approaching, commenting on topic, determining signs of acceptance, and exit strategies.
Entering Conversations
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Welcome to my entering conversations worksheet. It's a step-by-step outline that teaches students how to join a conversation. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. Next comes entering conversations. This is another common deficit that my students talk to me about. They're very reluctant, they feel like they just don't know how to enter conversations. So, this activity is basically step by step directions on how you can enter a conversation, including how to look for signs of acceptance. Once you've kind of gotten yourself in there and you say something and start to get into the conversation. Thanks for viewing my description of my entering conversations worksheet. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing.
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Conversation Skills: Entering Conversations
This PDF handout delves far deeper than merely initiating topics of conversation.
This handout outlines behaviors necessary for entering an in-process conversation, such as observation, physical proximity, questioning, timing, commenting, determination of acceptance, and exit strategies. It can be used for discussion and/or roleplaying so as to help learners on the autism spectrum strengthen their conversational literacy and understanding of interpersonal dynamics.
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