Children have difficulty understanding social cues, pragmatics, facial expressions and/ or body language of others.
Children who have social communication difficulties display the following behaviours in all settings:
- do not know how or have difficulty interacting with family, friends and caregivers
- have minimal or no eye contact
- difficulty showing and reading facial expressions
- do not show or understand body language/gestures
- have poor awareness of personal space
- have poor understanding of emotions or empathy
- have poor understanding on the rules of conversation; e.g. turn-taking in conversations
- speak out of topic or monopolise conversations
- have irrelevant speech or answers
- literal and do not understand sarcasm, ambiguous or figurative speech
- have difficulty adapting speech for different listeners e.g. talk to teacher in the same way as talking to peers
- have problems understanding meaning conveyed by tone of voice or implied meaning
- poor or lack in greetings or farewells
- delayed development of speech
Fix an appointment for your child to go for our Dynamic Diagnostic Assessment (DDA™) to identify your child’s learning and developmental strengths and weaknesses.
Bridge Learning specialised early intervention programmes to intervene in social communication difficulties: