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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talking through situations at home helped.  Articulating my feelings (or siblings feelings).  Making sure kid was treating parents and siblings the way I would want them to treat friends.  It's difficult to do so it doesn't come across as constantly criticizing, so pick your issues and try to notice when kid does anything well.[/quote]

This is excellent advice.

I am not really a believer in structured social skills groups but any kind of actual social group where kids play together could help. [/quote]

I disagree! For my son, the social skills group made a tremendous difference. The kids would play and the psychologists would stop them and they’d talk things out- “I notice Max is talking about race cars and Joe and Colin are not looking at him. Max, did you notice that? What are Joe and Colin doing when you started talking about cars again, after you’d already told them all about your favorite car a few minutes ago? That’s right, they walked over there instead. Let’s talk about that- how can we tell if someone is interested in what we are trying to tell them?” That’s one example but they did all sorts of stuff with real time feedback and it was fantastic. Practicing play in groups with no feedback isn’t going to be helpful for a kid who doesn’t see social cues. A lot of adhd kids have to be explicitly taught them. [/quote]

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