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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 227157" data-attributes="member: 1991"><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."</p><p></p><p>So true.</p><p></p><p>We have had access to a social skills class, but these are organised through the autism association, not through school. Maybe if difficult child 3 were in the autism class it would be different. Actually, you have given me an idea - I will make contact with the autism class to find out first, IF they are organising any social skills training with their class, and then IF we can get difficult child 3 to attend, purely for the social skills training. I've been wanting to talk to them anyway, for a whole host of reasons.</p><p></p><p>We've also been looking at organising another social skills course via the drama class/social club kids. It's been three years since the last one, I think it's time for another.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, we work of difficult child 3's social skills by ourselves. We watch various TV shows designed to teach social skills, we talk about the shows and we put the stuff into practice. </p><p></p><p>when difficult child 3 was in mainstream, there was far less scope for any of this. They won't teach social skills in a mainstream school, if there are only two or three autistic kids in the whole school. In fact, they won't even allow the other kids in the school to know that there are any autistic kids (confidentiality). As a result, it limits what help we can get.</p><p></p><p>But anything we organise outside school, or privately, or whatever we do at home - we have a lot more control now, a lot more freedom. </p><p></p><p>The TV show difficult child 3 watches has been really useful. It's Aussie-made and designed for slightly younger schoolkids, but it acts as a focus for us to discuss social issues. There IS a part of the curriculum which does deal with social issues, one of the compulsory subjects, and his correspondence teachers are gearing up to use that tio help. But it's fairly general. We'll see if they can make something more specific next year. I'll let you know if we get some useful material.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 227157, member: 1991"] "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." So true. We have had access to a social skills class, but these are organised through the autism association, not through school. Maybe if difficult child 3 were in the autism class it would be different. Actually, you have given me an idea - I will make contact with the autism class to find out first, IF they are organising any social skills training with their class, and then IF we can get difficult child 3 to attend, purely for the social skills training. I've been wanting to talk to them anyway, for a whole host of reasons. We've also been looking at organising another social skills course via the drama class/social club kids. It's been three years since the last one, I think it's time for another. In the meantime, we work of difficult child 3's social skills by ourselves. We watch various TV shows designed to teach social skills, we talk about the shows and we put the stuff into practice. when difficult child 3 was in mainstream, there was far less scope for any of this. They won't teach social skills in a mainstream school, if there are only two or three autistic kids in the whole school. In fact, they won't even allow the other kids in the school to know that there are any autistic kids (confidentiality). As a result, it limits what help we can get. But anything we organise outside school, or privately, or whatever we do at home - we have a lot more control now, a lot more freedom. The TV show difficult child 3 watches has been really useful. It's Aussie-made and designed for slightly younger schoolkids, but it acts as a focus for us to discuss social issues. There IS a part of the curriculum which does deal with social issues, one of the compulsory subjects, and his correspondence teachers are gearing up to use that tio help. But it's fairly general. We'll see if they can make something more specific next year. I'll let you know if we get some useful material. Marg Marg [/QUOTE]
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