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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t choose peer model for the increase in social skills [/quote]

Can you say more about this? Wouldn't learning to share, cooperate, listen patiently, be kind, consider others, include others, take turns .... all be something that peer model students would be modeling and working on? My understanding was that it was neurotypical peers along side students who had IEPs for different needs, so the peer students would be modeling and practicing those behaviors along with their peers. Why wouldn't that increase their social skills.

Maybe I misunderstand the model.

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PP, you’ve got it right. The poster you were quoting has me a wrong. [/quote]

+1 There is likely to be much more explicit emphasis on social learning to benefit the kids who need it, so your child is likely to get more social learning in this sense. I agree also that it should teach being patient and kind and less judgmental. Perhaps more of the spontaneous, typical interactions with peers might be different, but I don't necessarily think that would be bad. I probably wouldn't send my NT kid to a situation like this because he already experiences that atmosphere at home with his ND brother, but I would send a kid if no one in the family were ND.[/quote]

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