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Autism Activities for Social Skills
Welcome to Communication Acceleration. We have many different activities and worksheets to choose from to work on social and communication skills such as perspective taking, developing empathy, interpreting non-verbal cues, and maintaining conversations! Our Social Skills packet includes 13 products that work for many different types of nuanced individuals. We have many ideas for you, and don’t miss our Sticky Social Scenes board game.
Tact Worksheets
Students discuss provided tactless statements, learning to identify properties of offensiveness, bragging, inappropriateness, over-generalization, and prejudice
Speaking to Different Listeners Worksheets
Students learn to tailor information to specific listeners, in terms of both their listeners’ needs and what impressions they hope to give to their listeners
Perspective Taking Worksheets
Students are assigned the task of observing social interactions and speculating on the emotional effect of those interactions on the participants
Kinesics and Conversation Skills
This social skills activity gives students hands-on practice with identifying non-verbal signs of interest and disinterest during conversations and social interactions
Editing Verbal Narratives Activities Worksheets
Ideal for anyone who gives too much information, this task works on the ability to regard one’s listener when choosing which information to include in verbal narratives
Polite Wording Activities Worksheets
Students learn to regard others’ feelings and are tasked with incorporating given “softening” words and phrases into opinion statements and requests
Time Sensitivity
An engaging activity that increases students’ awareness of their listeners’ needs and improves their ability to limit their content to fit those needs
Entering Conversations
An outline of the steps necessary to enter a conversation already in progress, including body proximity, verbal strategies, and determination of acceptance
Elaboration
Rates a variety of answers to the same question in terms of elaboration, teaching students how to extend conversations
Developing Empathy Activities
This comprehensive social skills product includes extensive discussion, an activity, homework, and therapeutic notes, all targeting the ability to regard others’ feelings
Writing A Complaint Letter
Another favorite! Both a writing and social skills task, this product improves the ability to regard one’s reader when choosing content and wording
Social Skills Packet
A collection of all twelve social skills products covering conversation skills, perspective taking, empathy development, kinesics, and listener/reader presupposition
Set The Scene
This easy-to-use worksheet provides educators and speech language pathologists with an effective way to teach students to provide orienting details when starting a simple, conversational story.
