Social skills and AS

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I'm looking at encouraging the school to do some inclusive social skills training for DS.

He is nearly 7 and the courtesies of interaction generally pass him by.

He doesn't mean to be rude and he knows if you go through these things with you what he should do (e.g. if you say 'what you would you do if you wanted to ask for permission to do something)

Yet, he can't seem to put any of it in to practice unless he is in comfortable surroundings - home.

So, how do you teach this? By practical reinforcement?

I had to really push at my school for ds to get socails skills support. Remember the school have an obligation to fulfill his needs!!! My ds is high functioning Aspergers and 7yrs old. It still amazes me that he is so verbally elequant yet cant follow the simplest of social instructions when we ask him. We only got the diagnosis a few months ago and are still getting used to all this. The one thing we have found is that social stories, however basic they appear, have the most profound effect!!!! Push the Senco to write some for your ds regarding his areas of difficulty!!!

Thanks - that's helpful. I can say that there is no way our SENco is going to write any social stories himself. He wouldn't know where to start.

I went on a course with Carol Gray (Social Stories creator) in Bournemouth and it was amazing.