Social Skills

Social skills involve the ability to behave with others in a manner that produces positive outcomes. Social skills (also called social intelligence) will often have a greater impact on quality of life than academic intelligence.

Leadership skills are grounded in well-developed social skills. Factors contributing to social skills:

Automatic Modules

• Ability to read emotion 
• Ability to feel empathy
• These automatic or intuitive functions may not be working in children and adults with Autism & nonverbal learning disabilities. 

Learned Skills

• Active Listening
• Compromising
• Ability to be assertive without being aggressive
• Constructive criticism
• Praising
• Calming 
• Motivating others
• Temperament, parenting skills & factors such as anxiety or depression may slow or prevent their practice or acquisition

Self-Regulation

• Not being impulsive enough to become intrusive, aggressive or annoying, yet being spontaneous and genuine.
• Many neuorbehavioral conditions affect self-regulation. In children, the most common is ADHD.