Help me to build my social communication skills

 Help me to build my social communication. 


Communication means sharing the information between two people, the messager (speaker) and the listener will participate. Once the information received by the listener, the listener will give the feedback to the speaker. The feedback may be in verbal or non-verbal.

Social communication means this communication process between more than two people. Yes involving more than two people in sharing the information and giving the feedback process will be considered social communication. Social communication it's like a chain, if any of the link got affected, the hole chain will get breakdown.

Now a day difficult in social communication in children with autism Spectrum disorder is a very big issue. It can be solved under proper guidance of rehabilitation team management. 

Speech language therapist is one of the members in the rehabilitation team. I am a Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist. When I am taking the session for a child with Autism spectrum disorder, I got concern from the child's mother " how to improve social communication? "and I can read the child's mind query that the child also has the same question" help me to build my social communication."

Yes now we are going to read about how to improve social communication for a child with Autism. 

Group interaction, group play and group therapy will help them to improve their social interaction. But how to start this group interaction and from where to start this group interaction. 

From family and family members, we can start this social communication. Yes... Family is the one of the best social group for children. And family is the first group also for them to learn social skills. 

During the early childhood developmental stages family and family members is the best scaffolding for the child. When the child starts learning, then first stage will be observation. 

Stage:1 observation 

Yes... Observation from the parents, family members (caretakers, siblings, grandparents and other family members) and environment only the child starts learning. This observation through any sense (caretakers, siblings, grandparents and other family members). 

Stage: Two Expression 

Initially, the child will express through verbally it can be vocalization, cooing, differential cry, babbling, and one word like it will reach adult like talking. 

Stage:Three Getting feedback 

Once the child starts expression, the child should get the feedback. "two way communications" start here (human interaction, not with television, mobiles, tab etc). 

Stage:Four pre-order social communication skills 

Once they start getting, feedback the expression, will get, improve. They will start using in the social group. 

This is how the social communication skills start developing in early childhood. 

For a child with Autism spectrum disorder to improve social communication skills, it should start from family. Yes group learning will happen in child's known social group. Then we can try in the outer circle of the family. 


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