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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 549245" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>I've never seen this done, but I have read about it somewhere. For some kids with social skills deficits, they create a "circle of friends". These are hand-picked volunteers from school, who take turns including this individual in their activities - planned to not be a problem... so, the basketball star doesn't take him to a game, but instead to hang out with a few other people in the lunch room, or to watch something happening in the gym, that kind of thing. These volunteers are trained/coached/mentored by the school counsellors, and develop a plan together. They let the person they are helping know when they are socially appropriate, and when they are not, through pre-set signals. The person being helped commits to the program, and agrees to work the "system". It can do wonders for creating social skills, because they don't have to "try so hard" to get something, anything, for attention... they have it.</p><p></p><p>No idea how you'd start it, or if the school would consider it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 549245, member: 11791"] I've never seen this done, but I have read about it somewhere. For some kids with social skills deficits, they create a "circle of friends". These are hand-picked volunteers from school, who take turns including this individual in their activities - planned to not be a problem... so, the basketball star doesn't take him to a game, but instead to hang out with a few other people in the lunch room, or to watch something happening in the gym, that kind of thing. These volunteers are trained/coached/mentored by the school counsellors, and develop a plan together. They let the person they are helping know when they are socially appropriate, and when they are not, through pre-set signals. The person being helped commits to the program, and agrees to work the "system". It can do wonders for creating social skills, because they don't have to "try so hard" to get something, anything, for attention... they have it. No idea how you'd start it, or if the school would consider it... [/QUOTE]
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