Emotional Intelligence is a valuable asset for personal growth, but can it be learned? 4 Key Skills To Build Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Emotional Intelligence as a noun (a describing word) is built through improving skills, which can be learned anytime. However, to enjoy the benefits of EQ, knowledge must be applied to daily living, …
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People with autism experience social and communicative differences and have restricted interests and repetitive behaviors, and the interventions that have been developed to help social, cognitive, learning, and physical issues, focus on teaching them how to adopt neurotypical behaviors. Yet, these interventions may increase stigma and inhibit authenticity. Autism affects around 2 percent of the …
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Speech therapy can help autistic people and this article covers several important aspects, including guidelines on finding a qualified speech therapist. What Is Speech Therapy? A field with an extensive range, speech therapy treats speech and communication disorders. In children, those with developmental disorders are helped to understand and use spoken language in a …
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The digital workplace is here, and it’s not going away anytime soon. With the digital workplace comes surprising social aspects you would usually associate with a regular workplace. Now, there’s no digital water cooler for you to stand by and gossip when your break comes around, but there is a people aspect to your digital …
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With the online space comes a whole new way to learn, communicate, and most importantly, socialize. However, there’s a fear that people entering the digital space may not be able to be aware of the feelings and concerns of others online. To be able to maintain such an experience is known as “digital empathy”, something …
You will find that many children on the autism spectrum and with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder will have difficulties controlling their emotions. It’s believed by both scientists and parents alike that most of these children lack executive function skills. Executive function skills include being able to organize, manage time, sustain attention, be persistent in following goals, among …
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Human beings are prone to, and someone would say suffer from, feelings – we call these ‘emotions’. They affect our behaviour in different ways: some positive some negative. Some people appear, to others, to be driven by these factors. We call them emotional. Emotion could be defined as a strong feeling caused by: • Circumstances; …
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Raising an emotionally intelligent child can be a puzzle for some. You want to be able to strengthen your child’s ability to relate and socialize with other people, especially if they happen to have difficulty with emotions in general, like those with autism. Given it’s a relatively new concept, though, how you were raised can …
One of the biggest difficulties people with Autism Spectrum Disorder tend to have is with communication and social cues. Social interaction can be confusing and downright frustrating on both ends. It can lead to miscommunication, awkward moments, bad first impressions, and unfortunately, many kids with autism are ostracized for being “weird”. This can all stem …
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Emotions can be difficult to understand (especially for special needs children), but figuring out and identifying your own emotions is critical to understanding who you are as a person. How we react to certain situations and the intensity in which our emotions flare up can tell us a lot about ourselves, and it’s what makes …
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