Social skills are those set of skills which enable children to advance communication and quality of their interaction with others. Social skills are pivotal in forming bonds with peers, creating acceptability among groups and most importantly in developing rapport with the world we live in. While some students are natural at this, many students struggle to find their voice, to relate to their peers without appearing odd or to receive their peer's approval and acceptance. Of course, then the process of learning these skills with effort and training becomes essential as they are not inculcated pragmatic skills intuitively. Such students often experience difficulties while connecting with their peers, responding appropriately and timely manner to social demands or interpersonal breakdowns. This problem is more evident as these students struggle the subtle and often missed nuances. In such situations, teaching the students to observe, to make judgments regarding these behaviors and eventually to institute change becomes the premise of the social-pragmatic training.

Reading Between the Lines is a training course that is designed to focus on strategic processes involved in social-pragmatic learning. The skills addressed here will include demonstration of topic initiation, social analysis/synthesis skills and auditory processing and extrapolations. This will be done via language based saliency determination processes and the process of interpreting linguistic nuances based on invisible elements. Finally, we will also work on verbal reasoning and critical thinking skills essential for development of social competence. As an integral part of the social-pragmatic training, the students will be exposed to peer evaluation, video assessment and then reviewing individual performance and taking part in self critique.