Communication Patterns Form - Autistically Allied

Communication Patterns

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Client Name*

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Date of Birth*

Reading Others

Many of these questions involve how others read you and how you read others. This "reading" process involves recognizing, processing, interpreting, and utilizing meaning derived from nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language.

Consider the following scale for assessing your own abilities to read nonverbal communication: 0 (Not skilled at all) to 10 (Highly skilled). Rate yourself using this scale.*

Describe how skilled you are at reading the nonverbal communication of others.*

Eye Contact

How do you define "eye contact"?*

Where do you look during a conversation?*

How does attempting or making eye contact make you feel?*

How do you feel if others attempt to make eye contact with you?*

Have you ever been forced to make eye contact? If so, when and why?*

Have you ever been reminded to make eye contact? If so, when and what were the circumstances?*

Facial Expressions

Did you have to learn to make facial expressions, or did you just "know how"?*

If you had to learn to make facial expressions, how did you learn?*

Have others thought you were angry or some other emotion that you were not experiencing? Has this occurred more than three times? If so, please provide 1 or 2 examples.*

Have others told you that your facial expressions are "inappropriate" or "weird"? If so, has this happened more than three times? If so, please provide 1 or 2 examples.*

Have others told you that you are "hard to read" or have a "flat affect"? If so, has this happened more than three times? If so, please provide 1 or 2 examples.*

Do the facial expressions of others provide you any meaningful information? If so, what information?*

Do the facial expressions of others confuse you? If so, why?*

Are the facial expressions of others more helpful than confusing? Please explain.*

Tone of Voice

Would you describe yourself as monotone? Have others described you monotone? Do you agree or disagree with this feedback?*

Has your tone of voice been misinterpreted? If so, what patterns do you see in how your tone is misinterpreted?*

Does tone of voice provide you any helpful information about a person? If so, what information?*

Do you often assume others are "angry" or "mad" when they deny that they are feeling this way?*

Conversational Skills

How did you learn to engage in small talk?*

How did you learn to have a conversation?*

Do you enjoy small talk? If yes, why? If no, why?*

Do you think you are a good conversationalist? If so, why? If not, why?*

What feedback have others provided about your conversation skills?*

What mistakes do you make in conversations?*