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[quote=Anonymous]IMO such groups are not at all harmful, but are in fact a way to separate insurance companies (or self payers) from their money in a sustained way.  I feel like a lot of OT is the same:

It's pretty clear rolling in a towel or chatting around a round table will do no harm, and (here is the key) moms NEED to feel like they're Doing Something to "intervene" during "critical" brain plasticity.

Enter social skills groups.

Kids improve over the years, and moms will insist that it's due to all these soft interventions combined -- it wasnt any one therapy, but they're glad they did All They Could.

What's never been clinically or empirically shown though is the contribution of a social skills group.

Moms don't like to admit that Henry would've arrived in the exact same place 2 years later without such a group -- because his brain just matured.  That would make all that cash and driving around amount to a waste. And that's unbearable.

I think it takes real courage for a parent of a SN kid to say out loud, you know what? This particular thing is bullshit. So much appears to be at stake on a given action. [/quote]

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