(Website 5). An individual will have deficits in trying to exchange information for their benefit or for the listeners benefit. They reduce sharing their emotions, interests, and fail to respond to social interactions. The individual will poorly integrate verbal and nonverbal communication. Thing such as eye contact, body language, and difficulty in understanding and the use of gestures, which will lack in facial expressions and how one responds to someone else. They will show deficits in developing, maintaining, and understand relationships.(website 5) For example they will have difficulty changing how they speak on a play ground compared to in a classroom, or how they speak to another student rather than an …show more content…
Category one is the idea that an individual “requires support”. That with the support of someone helping them they can typically hold somewhat of a conversation, but may seem to dislike social interaction. The second category is the idea that an individual requires “substantial support.” In this category, social impairments will still occur even with support present, and they have a hard time coping with changes. The third category is individuals that, “require very substantial support.” An individual in this category has very little interest in having social interaction, their communication skills cause severe impairments in social interaction, and someone in this category has a very hard time in coping with any type of change that may occur. (website