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Who Am I As A Person (The Autism Sundae)

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  • 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
  • Name three conversation starters?
    provide appropriate answer, good morning how are you?, Hi, how was your weekend, What's up! How are you doing today, etc.
  • 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: 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 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 someone is talking to you too quickly?
    Politely ask them to slow down, repeat back so you can ensure understanding/ role play
  • 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: you are having a conversation with someone, how do you know they are interested in what you are saying?
    looking at you, asking you questions, providing their feedback and ideas, engaging with facial and verbal expressions (smiling, laughing, uhuh, yes, I hear you)
  • 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 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 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 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: 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: Name three ways to end a conversation
    Have a great day, talk to you later, bye/take care, I have to go now, talk to you soon!, I enjoyed talking with! take care
  • 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: how do you know that someone is not interested in the conversation when you are speaking
    not looking at you/looking around the room, talking to others during, speaking over you, lack of verbal and nonverbal responses,
  • 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 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: 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