Role-Playing:
Practice common social scenarios through role-playing. This provides a low-pressure environment where your child can practice their social skills and develop their social understanding with your guidance.
Play Dates:
Arrange playdates in low pressure and familiar environments to provide opportunities for social interaction.
Emotion Cards:
Use cards with faces displaying different emotions on them. This can help your child to recognize the facial ‘clues’ that others display about the emotions that they are feeling. Try to use cards with your or another child’s face as its easier to develop these skills when looking at someone’s face rather than cartoon faces.
Body language match:
Demonstrate body language signs that people use when feeling different emotions and help your child to identify the body ‘clues’ that help identify others’ emotions.