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[quote=Anonymous]Whenever my kids are struggling with a skill I try to break it down into components then focus on one component at a time. When that is mastered add the next one.

For example you want your kid to be able to look a waiter in the eye and say “may I please have a glass of water” loud enough to be understood and then when the water arrives be able to say “thank you” loud enough to be understood while looking the waiter in the eye.

That can break down to the following: 
- decide before the wait or arrives what you want 
- say what you want
- saying what you want loud enough to be understood 
- look up at the waiter while saying what you want
- make eye contact with the waiter while saying what you want
- say please when saying what you want
- say please loud enough to be understood 
-when the water arrives say thank you
- say thank you loud enough to be understood 
- say thank you while looking up at the waiter 
- Say thank you while making eye contact with the waiter.

Pick one of these steps and focus on that for a few weeks. Don’t ask your kid to do all of them, just one that they aren’t currently doing. Then after they are consistently doing that add in another step. [/quote]

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