Social Skills Part 1: Toddler to Preschool Social Skills

When working with young children with ASD social skills may be a more difficult area for teaching due to many factors including deficits in verbal ability, cognitive ability, executive function, and theory of mind.

We will explore social skill areas that have been studied and determined important for active intervention due to their relation to successful outcomes such as:

• Joint attention
• Socially engaged imitation
• Affect sharing
• Working memory
• Rule-guided acts
• Symbolic play
• Social communication
• Reciprocal social interaction