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Language/ Chocolate Ice-cream: How can one show they have good language skills
speaking well/if you can speak or using a device functionally, taking in lots of spoken information, understanding words
Language: What is a strategy you can use when you have a heard time taking in alot of verbal information
write it down, record it, ask information to be repeated, restate to see if you understood correctly/ role play how to do this
Language: what can you do if someone uses a word that you don't understand?
Ask what the word means, ask for examples to help explain the word/ role play how to do this
Language: What can you do if someone speaks to quickly
Ask them to slow down, write down information: role play how to do this...
Language: Give an example of figures of speech
Provides an appropriate answer and states what it really means, ex. its raining cats and dogs
Language: what can you do when someone is talking and there are so many sounds around making it hard to hear
Ask to go someone more quiet: role play this
Language: What can you do when someone asks you a question and you do not have an immediate answer
Ask them to give you time to think about what you have to say: role play this
Language: what can you do if you are speaking to someone who has a foreign accent or different dialect you don't understand
Explain that the difficulty and politely ask them to speak slower or write it down/ role play this
Language: What if someone says "look at me, or want you to make eye contact and it makes you uncomfortable
Explain how this request makes you feel, and express to them that you are listening by restating in your own words what they said
Language: What can you do when someone is talking to you but you are thinking about something else
Provides an appropriate answer (apolgize and explain what is going on with your thoughts and ask to speak at a different time, or to repeat it/ role play
Language: What can you do when someone is speaking to you when you are worried, anxious or overwhelmed?
Politely explain that you are having trouble focusing because you are experiencing a negative emotion, ask for time to use a coping strategy and then talk
Language: What can you do if someone gives you information but do not want to type or write it down
Ask politely to let you get something (paper/pencil, phone to record) so you can write it down yourself/role play
Language: what can you do if someone is talking to you too quickly?
Politely ask them to slow down, repeat back so you can ensure understanding/ role play
Language: What are three things you can do to show you are a good listener?
Eye contact/ look at speaker, taking turns speaking, stay on topic
Language: What can you do if you are speaking to someone and they are talking too much and not allowing you to speak?
Provides appropriate answer (politely ask them to let you say something, make a joke/ dang you have a lot to say today, Lol, I can't even get a word in, etc)
Language: Show you language skills by starting, engaging and appropriately ending a conversation
Able to do so appropriately using the steps of eye contact/ looking at speaker, turn taking, staying on topic, sharing interests, body lang. and verbal response
