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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS has autism, fully mainstreamed in kinder. He is very talkative at home, can sustain interaction and maintain conversation with adults.  
He is always so excited to go to school every morning and is a teacher-pleaser.  However, he is very quiet with peers and has difficulty sustaining play / maintaining conversation with peers.  It's heart-wrenching to see him not feeling connected to his classmates and playing by himself. He cannot explain to me either why he's such a different kid at school vs home.

If you have older kids with ASD, is this continue going to be a problem?  How can I help my DS to feel connected to his peers? 
We have weekly playdates with his classmates but watching his peers is making me more worried that the gap in my DS social skills is getting wider as he gets older.  [/quote]

10:53 again here, I realize I didn't answer your direct questions:

Is this going to continue to be a problem?  Not sure if it will be a "problem" but it seems likely it could be a phenomenon that persists to some degree.

How can you help feel connected?  In our case we did a lot of work on this -- set up dyads with a speech pathologist and social thinking teacher involving a peer at a comparable stage of social advancement.  Was painstaking and slow progress at first but paid off.

Weekly playdates/gap getting wider -- yes, the gap can get wider if the child doesn't get extra help.  All children tend to advance their social skills over time so the gap will become wider unless they all progress at the same pace.  Some children need more help to progress, ours did.  [/quote]

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