This social skills activity encourages and trains students to identify non-verbal signs of interest and disinterest during conversations and social interactions
Social Skills Activities: Editing Verbal Narratives
You are here - Conversation Skills - Editing Verbal Narratives
Social Skills:
Editing Narratives
These printable worksheets, accompanied by therapeutic notes, help individuals on the autism spectrum improve their conversational skills by increasing their perspective taking ability and listener presupposition awareness. Given a sample verbal narrative in written form, students make decisions to retain or omit sentences and parts of sentences. They are tasked with basing their decisions on their listener’s needs and interests. The therapeutic notes provide comprehensive discussion on why to retain or omit each word, phrase, and sentence. Improved decision-making based on listener presupposition can then generalize into everyday, natural conversations.
Related Social Emotional Learning Activities in PDF to Editing Verbal Narratives
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 in Conversations
This conversation skills handout gives ratings for 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
Communication Skills Questionaire
Students check which social skills they’d like to work on in the areas of conversation, practical skills, non-verbal, dating, and conflict
Time Sensitivity
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
Tact
Students discuss provided tactless statements, learning to identify properties of offensiveness, bragging, inappropriateness, over-generalization, and prejudice
Speaking to Different Listeners
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
Developing empathy is not an easy task for many individuals with Asperger’s. I believe observation is key. Individuals on the autism spectrum do not naturally observe others’ facial expressions.
Sticky Social Scenes
Recommended for adolescents and adults, this board game tasks players with considering and providing solutions to a wide array of awkward social situations
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
Polite Wording Worksheets
Students learn to regard others’ feelings and are tasked with incorporating given “softening” words and phrases into opinion statements and requests
