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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am just wondering if the experience of parents on here with kids who have this disorder. My son at 10 recently got this as a diagnosis for his recent neuropsychological evaluation and I am trying to think of some nice tips to help my son since he also has a learning disability in reading comprehension and poor attention.[/quote]

My older teen has this diagnosis. He had a hard time making friends in elementary school. He wasn't playing alone at recess but he wasn't invited to playdates or parties outside of school. He fixated on topics of interest to him. He would ask the same question over and over as a way to engage. He also didn't get social cues, so he would make an observation not understanding that it may hurt another kid's feelings. What I did: I had to explicitly coach him when he did this. As in: "you already asked me that question and I already answered it. You could ask me a follow up question now such as ___" Or "when you said that, it hurt my feelings because ___". Or - I am busy with x now, I can't listen to this right now. I would always say these nicely and without judgment, very neutrally. Over time, it helped. It's a process. Your kid doesn't intuit these social cues, so you have to explicitly teach them. While at first it felt a little mean, I realized it was worse to let him keep doing these things without teaching him.

Perhaps because of improved social skills, he did find a really nice friend group in later middle school and stuck with them through high school. He also found a hand on activity he really loved and dove into that. It brought a social group too.

A formal social skills group did not work at all for my kid because his issues were subtle and he was way too advanced for what they were working on. He did 1:1 speech therapy along with my coaching as natural learning opportunities presented.

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