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ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATION

CHAPTER 3 COMMUNICATION Conversation and use of communication devices and techniques d350 Conversation Starting, sustaining and ending an interchange of thoughts and ideas, carried out by means of spoken, written, sign or other forms of language, with one or more people one knows or who are strangers, in formal or casual settings. Inclusion starting, sustaining and ending a conversation; conversing with one or many people

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Starting a conversation	Sustaining a conversation	Ending a conversation	Conversing with one person	Conversing with many people	Conversation, other specified	Conversation, unspecified
Beginning a dialogue or interchange, such as by introducing oneself, expressing customary greetings, and introducing a topic or asking questions.	Continuing and shaping a dialogue or interchange by adding ideas, introducing a new topic or retrieving a topic that has been previously mentioned, as well as by taking turns in speaking or signing.	Finishing a dialogue or interchange with customary termination statements or expressions and by bringing closure to the topic under discussion.	Initiating, maintaining, shaping and terminating a dialogue or interchange with one person, such as in discussing the weather with a friend	Initiating, maintaining, shaping and terminating a dialogue or interchange with more than one individual, such as in starting and participating in a group interchange.

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