Living With Social Communication Disorder

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Communication plays a huge role in our everyday life. A child living with the inability to communicate or hold conversations in a socially appropriate way can be classified as a Social Communication Disorder (SCD). According to The Understood Team (n.d.), a child with a SCD “[has] difficulty with pragmatics—the unspoken, subtle rules of spoken language that allow people to connect.” SCD affects a child’s ability to grasp new concepts in and out of the classroom making it more difficult when handling, the already complex, life. Living with a Social Communication Disorder can make every day experiences like learning and the ability to interact with peers more of a challenge. The classroom setting is a difficult adaptation in any child’s life,

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