Non-Verbal Communication

Understanding and using gestures, facial expressions, body language, and eye contact in social interactions.

Examples & Achievements

• Makes appropriate eye contact during conversation
• Uses gestures to supplement speech (pointing, waving, nodding, shaking head)
• Reads basic facial expressions (happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised)
• Understands simple gestures (thumbs up, come here, quiet)
• Adjusts proximity to others appropriately

How to Measure

• Correctly identifies 5 basic emotions from photographs of faces
• Uses eye contact during 70%+ of conversational exchanges (observed)
• Matches emotions to facial expressions (5 out of 6 correct)
• Social skills observation checklist - non-verbal items