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<blockquote data-quote="TheBoyHasArrived" data-source="post: 564936" data-attributes="member: 14829"><p>It depends on what is actually happening in the group and what J's actual deficits are in social skills. In the district that I worked in before, there were social skills groups facilitated by the psychologist. They basically were a small group opportunity for the psychiatric to "help" the kids learn more appropriate ways to interact (for example, she would prompt a student to use his/her words to request materials, remind them of personal space, etc.); the point of the group was not to have the kids with social deficits learn from each other but to have a controlled, safe place to practice the skills. There was an outside group held by a speech-language pathologist that targeted social communication and focused on appropriate topics, volume, personal space, etc., as well. The idea is that 90% of their day, students are given the opportunity to learn social skills from their environment. A social skills group is a small group, safe group where feedback can be given immediately and directly (if it were a group of students with typical social skills, an adult might not have as much freedom to give feedback and modeling immediately without calling attention to the child's difficulties--in a social skills group, all students need support in that area, so it's not as big of a deal.) </p><p></p><p> That said, it completely depends on the child and the adult facilitating whether social skills groups are beneficial. For my high functioning kids with autism/aspergers, it was fantastic because it gave them friends with similar interests. In my building, it was called Lego Club and the typical kids never knew what it was all about (and would want to go too).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBoyHasArrived, post: 564936, member: 14829"] It depends on what is actually happening in the group and what J's actual deficits are in social skills. In the district that I worked in before, there were social skills groups facilitated by the psychologist. They basically were a small group opportunity for the psychiatric to "help" the kids learn more appropriate ways to interact (for example, she would prompt a student to use his/her words to request materials, remind them of personal space, etc.); the point of the group was not to have the kids with social deficits learn from each other but to have a controlled, safe place to practice the skills. There was an outside group held by a speech-language pathologist that targeted social communication and focused on appropriate topics, volume, personal space, etc., as well. The idea is that 90% of their day, students are given the opportunity to learn social skills from their environment. A social skills group is a small group, safe group where feedback can be given immediately and directly (if it were a group of students with typical social skills, an adult might not have as much freedom to give feedback and modeling immediately without calling attention to the child's difficulties--in a social skills group, all students need support in that area, so it's not as big of a deal.) That said, it completely depends on the child and the adult facilitating whether social skills groups are beneficial. For my high functioning kids with autism/aspergers, it was fantastic because it gave them friends with similar interests. In my building, it was called Lego Club and the typical kids never knew what it was all about (and would want to go too). [/QUOTE]
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