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Deinonychus
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25 Feb 2017, 9:56 pm

basically they want me to initiate conversations with people
there gonna be doing speech therapy.
and according to the assessment they say my social skills are 3.05 out of 5.

61 percent.
does that mean my social skills are good now?
or is that there guess
because i know i have poor and impaired social skills.

how do you deal with social situations?
do u take speech therapy as well?


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26 Feb 2017, 3:05 am

I find speech therapy horribly embarrassing.
I've done it before, and I too will be returning to speech therapy soon after throat surgery.
Mine is not so much focused on improving social interaction - it's primarily actually training my vocal cords to make the proper sounds, as it is speech itself that is difficult / impaired for me, rather than the art of conversation.
One thing I did find difficult about speech therapy is the different inflections actually use different muscles within the throat - thus, making a sound with a "sad" inflection uses different muscles than making the same sound with a "happy" inflection. I don't understand emotions or emotional expression, so I found this difficult. I just tried to copy the pathologist, hoping that exercised the right muscles. It was even more confusing / embarrassing when the "sad" intonation had to be accompanied by a "sad" facial expression.
Awkward.


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