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Starting a Conversation
How to begin talking with someone. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. A conversation is words going back and forth between people. Like passing a ball, but with talking.
2. To start one, I can say hello. Then I can add a question or a comment.
3. Good starters are about here and now: "What are you playing?" "Is that a new book?" "Did you see the rain?"
4. I try a conversation starter.
5. After I start, the other person might do different things.
What could happen next? They answer and ask me something back. They give a short answer. They start talking a lot. We don't know yet — and that's okay. 💡 I can start a conversation, but both people build it. Any outcome is useful practice.
6. Conversations end on their own after a while. When it ends, I did the brave part: I started it.
✦ Practice this story interactively — free in the Sovelo app
In the app, your child can choose what happens next, rehearse lines out loud with Spark, and try different endings — including hearing a kind "no" and being celebrated for respecting it. Parents can also create fully personalized stories.
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Sovelo Stories are original social narratives, written for neurodivergent kids and reviewed against strict guardrails: no eye-contact training, no masking, no mind-reading — and "no" is always a complete answer. Evidence-informed preparation, not a treatment. © Ezra Brown.