Communication Skills
Communication skills allow an individual to send and receive information. The sending and receiving can take the forms of gestures, writing, speaking, reading and listening etc.. Psychosocial skills must work together with our communication skills to enable us to understand that information, interact appropriately with other individuals and function within a socially meaningful context. Psychosocial skills allow us to interact with, perceive, influence and relate to others. Psychosocial skills include our ability to appropriately experience, display and perceive emotional states and relate these to the events and environments where they occur. If a person has trouble recognizing when another person is happy, irritated, angry, sad etc. or has trouble experencing these feelings then their interaction with others is likely to be poor and sometimes inappropriate.
There are many ways in which development, injury or disease can affect one’s communication and psychosocial skills. The communication skills track of the Neuropsychonline therapy system presents exercises that focus on some very specific areas of difficulty that we frequently observe with those with cognitive impairment.