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What is Social Interaction Skills

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Teaching With Virtual Environments and AI
Social interaction skills are the skills we use everyday to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body language.
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Use of Virtual Worlds for Development of Social Interaction Skills of Children With Special Needs
Amir Manzoor (Bahria University, Pakistan)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7638-0.ch018
Abstract
At a growing rate, educators are realizing academic potential of virtual world and starting to use them to support the development of social skills and learning of children with special needs (CSN). A virtual world could be integrated into different learning contexts to provide a safe, friendly, and supportive multiuser learning environment for CSN. The objective of this chapter is to explore how educators can leverage shared interests of CSN in virtual world to facilitate their social interaction and how educator and technology support can be used to guide this learning process of CSN.
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