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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 227148" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, Marg, my son still isolates!!! If he wasn't in school it would be worse. He DOES like having friends. And I know you weren't offered things like social skills classes and life skills training, but in the US, you are. And it made a big difference with my kid. So I often caution parents of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids in the US from keeping kids home for school. While they don't learn social skills by observation (although I think mine has, now that he's older), they can learn in social skills class and then apply it to their friends in their other classes, which is what my son did. He also became more comfortable with other people. He can handle being in a large room of people. He doesn't like it and won't talk to people he doesn't know, but at least he can BE there and if somebody talks to him first, he won't make good eye contact, but he WILL answer appropriately. Also, his Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) has gotten better due to the PT and Occupational Therapist (OT) and also from having to deal with stimuli. At first, he was horrible with stimuli, but he can handle it now. He knows his limits and will compensate when it gets to be too much, but he doesn't meltdown. For a long time we couldn't take him to the fireworks. Now he wants to go. If it gets too loud, he'll go sit in the car and watch them, maybe with headphones on. </p><p>I do think it depends on what is offered in public school and what your state allows you to participate in if the kids aren't in school. Even if you text book teach social skills to an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) child, you still have to give them a lot of opportunity to practice what they have learned (as in all subjects). My son has become a leader in his study hall for Learning Disability (LD) kids. Because he's smart kids go to him for help and he is very willing and eager to help them. I wonder if he'd be able to burst out of his shell and be this way if he had stayed home (trust me, we thought of it!) He also is in choir which means he has to stand in front of an audience four times a year. He doesn't like it and often drives me and hub nuts as he picks at his clothes, but HE CAN DO IT! And he isn't really all that nervous about it anymore. This is a kid who would scream and cover his ears at one time if he was in a room with twenty people that he didn't know. We've come a long way, and I do give school a lot of the credit. We just didn't have the resources at home to help him that much. But...yes, all kids and situations are different <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 227148, member: 1550"] Well, Marg, my son still isolates!!! If he wasn't in school it would be worse. He DOES like having friends. And I know you weren't offered things like social skills classes and life skills training, but in the US, you are. And it made a big difference with my kid. So I often caution parents of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids in the US from keeping kids home for school. While they don't learn social skills by observation (although I think mine has, now that he's older), they can learn in social skills class and then apply it to their friends in their other classes, which is what my son did. He also became more comfortable with other people. He can handle being in a large room of people. He doesn't like it and won't talk to people he doesn't know, but at least he can BE there and if somebody talks to him first, he won't make good eye contact, but he WILL answer appropriately. Also, his Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) has gotten better due to the PT and Occupational Therapist (OT) and also from having to deal with stimuli. At first, he was horrible with stimuli, but he can handle it now. He knows his limits and will compensate when it gets to be too much, but he doesn't meltdown. For a long time we couldn't take him to the fireworks. Now he wants to go. If it gets too loud, he'll go sit in the car and watch them, maybe with headphones on. I do think it depends on what is offered in public school and what your state allows you to participate in if the kids aren't in school. Even if you text book teach social skills to an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) child, you still have to give them a lot of opportunity to practice what they have learned (as in all subjects). My son has become a leader in his study hall for Learning Disability (LD) kids. Because he's smart kids go to him for help and he is very willing and eager to help them. I wonder if he'd be able to burst out of his shell and be this way if he had stayed home (trust me, we thought of it!) He also is in choir which means he has to stand in front of an audience four times a year. He doesn't like it and often drives me and hub nuts as he picks at his clothes, but HE CAN DO IT! And he isn't really all that nervous about it anymore. This is a kid who would scream and cover his ears at one time if he was in a room with twenty people that he didn't know. We've come a long way, and I do give school a lot of the credit. We just didn't have the resources at home to help him that much. But...yes, all kids and situations are different ;) [/QUOTE]
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