Social Skills

 

Social skill education and skill practice is embedded throughout the academic day with a focus on:

 

Conversation skills:


  • ability to gain attention appropriately

  • uses active listening and engaged nonverbal language

  • ability to read nonverbal cues

  • interacts appropriately using conversation initiation, maintenance, and termination

  • expresses variety of topics

  • uses relevant comments and questions

  • utilizes language appropriate to context and audience


Pragmatic skills:


  • able to request help, information, and objects

  • able to provide information and explanations

  • able to express self advocacy, negotiation, compromise, apologies, disagreement, and persuasion

  • able to express or respond to humor


Social etiquette skills:


  • makes introductions

  • demonstrates use of greetings/closings and basic manners

 

 

Social Problem Solving:


  • ability to identify problems, their causes, solutions, and ways to avoid them

 

 

Emotional Intelligence:


  • understanding and use of emotional vocabulary

  • ability to express and respond to emotions of self and others expresses empathy understands perspective taking

 

 

It is the policy of The Pathway School to provide equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or the presence of any disability.
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