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Non verbal communication

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I specialise in teaching non-verbal communication skills with ASD children. I have 10 years of teaching experience but I’m finding that schools don’t put enough emphasis on this and using AAC with ASD (as well as a variety of other disorders). I’d like to hear anyone’s views including parents about this as I would love to be able to use my knowledge to help set these up within the family setting.

I have had great feedback from current and previous parents within the school setting but many didn’t know about the options available until I had their children in my classroom. Is this true of all areas or only schools I have worked in? Is there a demand for such a service? 

Thanks 

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  • I have great difficulty with non-verbal communication - I see faces but as their expressions change so rapidly, I can't spot the default state which means I can't work out the smaller changes which carry so much information. It's a continually changing set of photos that have no story linking them together. I spend so long analysing each photo that I get backed-up and run out of processing ability.

    This is ok for a lot of 'data transfer' conversations like "What have you been doing recently?" or " How was your holiday?" but useless for when people are talking about feelings or personal / relationship things.

    Luckily, I've always worked in all-male engineering environments so my limitations were easy to hide - blokes don't tend to do fluffy 'feelings' conversations.

    I spot large, obvious body language movements but nothing subtle.

    I really don't see that I could be taught to be better at it all because it seems to be a data processing problem - sort of a hardware limitation rather than a set of rules limitation.

    I have no experience of teaching kids so I've no idea how effective this training could be.

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  • I have great difficulty with non-verbal communication - I see faces but as their expressions change so rapidly, I can't spot the default state which means I can't work out the smaller changes which carry so much information. It's a continually changing set of photos that have no story linking them together. I spend so long analysing each photo that I get backed-up and run out of processing ability.

    This is ok for a lot of 'data transfer' conversations like "What have you been doing recently?" or " How was your holiday?" but useless for when people are talking about feelings or personal / relationship things.

    Luckily, I've always worked in all-male engineering environments so my limitations were easy to hide - blokes don't tend to do fluffy 'feelings' conversations.

    I spot large, obvious body language movements but nothing subtle.

    I really don't see that I could be taught to be better at it all because it seems to be a data processing problem - sort of a hardware limitation rather than a set of rules limitation.

    I have no experience of teaching kids so I've no idea how effective this training could be.

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