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Jackson Social/AAC in Action

As a part of the Jackson Social Skills Initiative this week your child learned about taking turns in conversation. Teaching students how to listen and take turns is important to understand language and take part in conversation.  This is also important for developing social relationships and employability skills.

Teaching your child to listen and take turns in a conversation can be as simple as

1.         Looking at the person who is talking 

2.         Being quiet when someone else is talking 

3.         Waiting until the person has finished talking 

Over the course of the week students have practiced taking turns in conversation by engaging in games such as the turn taking ball, pass it on and broken telephone. 

Students used AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication) this included learning the signs for ‘eat’ and ‘lunch’ to spark conversation over mealtimes! 

Check out the AAC in Action this week!