Social Language Disorder
Interacting with other people plays a huge role in the lives of most adults. However, social language disorders can cause trouble with basic social skills such as maintaining eye contact, reading body language, or changing the way a person communicates to match the behavior of whomever they’re speaking with.
Joint Effort Physical Therapy in Colorado Springs, CO provides therapy services to determine if a person is dealing with a social language disorder, and also create a plan of action to help them overcome social obstacles.
What is a social language disorder?
Social communication is how we use our language in social environments such as school or work. It includes social interaction, social cognition, language processing, and pragmatics (the area of linguistics that has to do with how meaning is created and interpreted in verbal and nonverbal interactions).
According to ASHA, “social communication disorders can result in far-reaching problems, including difficulty participating in social settings, developing peer relationships, achieving academic success, and performing successfully on the job.”
Social language disorders cause trouble speaking in social situations, reading social cues from others, as well as difficulty reading body language. A person with a social language disorder might also struggle to know the appropriate thing to say to someone, or what tone of voice to use when they say it.
Social language disorders may also accompany other conditions, such as:
- developmental disabilities;
- learning disabilities;
- written language disorders;
- attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- traumatic brain injuries
- aphasia
- Dementia
Recognizing a social language disorder
Everyone is different, however, some common indicators are as follows:
- Difficulty thinking of a particular word
- Trouble planning and sequencing actions or tasks
- Problems with social interactions (at home or at school)
- Trouble with maintaining eye contact during conversation
- Difficulty organizing thoughts or ideas into a sentence
- Problems reading and interpreting social cues and body language
Joint Effort Physical Therapy’s speech therapists in Colorado Springs, CO can help patients improve their speech and language skills for effective communication.
At your first assessment, your therapist will evaluate your current speech and language abilities as well as your problem-solving and reasoning skills. From there, they’ll create a customized treatment plan that will allow you to work on and improve your social language skills.
Contact Joint Effort Physical Therapy today
Joint Effort Physical Therapy’s goal is to help you become more confident in your ability to communicate with others and interact in social settings through various therapeutic exercises and challenges. To learn more about our services and how we can work with you to hone your social language skills, contact our office in Colorado Springs, CO today.