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Social Skills Activities: Editing Verbal Narratives

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Slide Social emotional learning printable SOCIAL SKILLS WORKSHEETS So many of my students on the autism spectrum have trouble editing themselves when they’re telling me about a vacation they went on or their favorite video game, as examples, often providing too many details because they’re not keeping their listener in mind. KEEP READING
Verbal Narratives - A Social Emotional Learning Activity
Social Skills:  Editing Narratives Lisa Flower

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.

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