This section considers how best to support young people with Social Communication. Speech and Language needs are included in another section.
Young People with Social Communication needs may have difficulties with:
- Social communication: for example, problems using and understanding verbal and non-verbal language, such as gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice.
- Social interaction: for example, problems in recognising and understanding other people’s feelings and managing their own feelings.
- Social imagination: for example, problems with predicting other people’s intentions and behaviour and imagining situations outside their own routine.
- Sensory differences: including some form of sensory oversensitivity (hypersensitivity) or under-sensitivity (hyposensitivity) for example to sounds, touch, tastes, smells, light or colours.
These needs are commonly associated with Autistic Spectrum Conditions but may also arise from developmental delay and/or environmental factors such as early childhood trauma.
Warwickshire County Council, in partnership with agencies has an All-age Autism Strategy
Warwickshire County Council has been working in partnership with the Autism Education Trust (AET) who have produced effective support and intervention materials which can be used for young people with social communication difficulties, whether they have a diagnosis of Autism or not.
