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Speaking to Different Communicative Partners
Adjusting to your communicative partner is an important skill with which individuals on the autism spectrum often struggle. Keeping your listeners in mind (listener presupposition) in terms of what information they need or don't need, and how your words give them a specific impression of you, is essential to successful communication. These worksheets work directly on improving listener presupposition skills. Students write down hypothetical verbal answers to various questions, without knowing to whom they are speaking, and then go back and choose which parts of their answers they would keep or omit, given the identity of their listeners, including a new friend, a job interviewer, a grandparent, etc. Choices made can then be discussed and modified. Three separate printable worksheets ensure improvement of your students' perspective taking and listener presupposition skills.
Speaking to Different Communicative Partners
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While theory of mind involves understanding others' perspectives and being able to “put yourself in their shoes”, the subsequent ability of adjusting your own behavior accordingly is of utmost importance. These printable worksheets help individuals on the autism spectrum improve their ability to modify what they say depending on to whom they are speaking. After answering six different questions in writing, students go back and choose which information to include or delete depending on who their listener is. Lastly, the students answer subsequent questions for particular receivers. These worksheets lend themselves naturally to extended discussion regarding the reasons behind choices made.
Note: I fold under “Step B” at the bottom of the first two worksheets before handing them out to students. It is important that they answer the questions freely before knowing what will be asked of them next.
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These social skills worksheets and activities for individuals with Autism and Social Pragmatic Communication Disorders target a variety of social skills, including the development of empathy, perspective taking, kinesics, listener/reader presupposition, and conversational skills
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