Social communication refers to the ability to use language to relate to others in various social situations. Social communication difficulties can present themselves in many different ways but can have a large impact on a child’s functioning in his/her everyday world.

Express Yourself Speech can help your child with his or her social communication skills in many different ways. Some of these areas include:

• Helping your child to read and interpret nonverbal communication cues, e.g., body language, tone of voice and facial expression
• Making implicit rules for social situations more explicit
• Perspective-taking
• Helping your child to understand how his/her behaviour impacts others thoughts and feelings
• Making friends and maintaining solid and positive peer relationships
• Reciprocal conversations
• Joining a group
• Problem solving
• Conflict resolution

At Express Yourself Speech, we will help your children, tweens and teens to develop social communication skills through direct teaching, videos, books and role play.