Finding common ground and building conversation can often prove a difficult task for many. Help learners build this important social skill using this resource, which includes a Venn diagram activity and sentence prompts to help students learn to start and develop conversations.

Concepts

conversation skills, social skills, autism, discussion skills

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Additional Tags

programs

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Instructional Ideas

• If you have overhead sheets at your disposal, consider having learners use these to start their writing on different ends of a table, rather than having them try to not look at their partner's paper 

Classroom Considerations

• Resource was originally designed to support learners with Asperger syndrome or elsewhere on the autism spectrum

Pros

• Includes variety of ideas for conversation starters
• Color reference is useful for more visual learners

Cons

• None