Social Skills

Social skills are those tricky unwritten skills in social situations that aren't necessarily obvious to everyone.  People on the Autism Spectrum can have specific difficulties with understanding social rules, applying them and knowing that they are not rules that are 'set in stone', but that change depending on who they are with, and where they are.  
Social skills are a broad range of skills and include the following (and more!):- 

• Understanding and using non-verbal language such as facial expressions, body posture, eye contact, tone of voice
• Coping with changes in rules depending on the person they are interacting with as well as the situation they are in
• Reading