How can a children’s program also be suited for adults?
Many adults have gone through life struggling with social communication problems that have never been diagnosed or treated. As an adult, one may feel lonely, anxious around people or lack confidence in their communication skills. If an adult is open and motivate to change, then it is never too late to make improvements. Some common pragmatic problems in adults include, interrupting, loud talking, argumentative or needing to be right, self- centered topic selection, poor conversational turn taking, lack of social initiation, and flat affect. Adults may also experience new communication problems due to a neurological condition such as brain injury, stroke, or tumor. Any adult communication disorder can be treated using our approach to focus on natural social communication verses traditional methods of training via worksheets and flash cards.
Related Questions
- May a FWS student tutor only adults or only children in a family literacy program, or does the student have to tutor both the adults and their children?
- Does MUSCs Communication Sciences and Disorders Program prepare me for work with children and adults?
- What is the success rate of Children & Adults who undertake the Dynamic Listening Systems (DLS) Program?
