Who would benefit from Dramatic Pragmatics social language groups?
• Students WITH OR WITHOUT a formal diagnosis who are having trouble making/maintaining friendships and deciphering the “social code” • Students who excel in academics but have not mastered “the social code” • Students who are considered “quirky,” inflexible and “conversationally out of sync” • Students who have difficulty accessing language due to word retrieval difficulty and who “freeze up” and “shut down” when put into the social arena • Students with difficulty with “executive functioning” including impulse control, self-monitoring, planning, and being able to share their experiencesby tellingan organized, sequentialstory and picking out only the most important parts to tell • Students who have difficulty knowing how to initiate conversation, how to react to what others say and how to maintain a topic • Students who struggle to make appropriate comments, ask appropriate questions and follow up questions to keep a conversation going • Students who have regulatory issues and can’t i
