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[quote=Anonymous]I have an 11 year old with HFA.  You can do some things at home to support language development. We work with him constantly on language processing and provide as many "speech rich" activities for him as we can. We play a lot of board games and table top games at our house because they encourage verbal interaction. We keep him enrolled in drama classes and theater classes - they improve processing of verbal language and teach empathy and social skills. When we watch TV or movies, we watch them with the subtitles on because he can process the movie better if he can read the dialogue, instead of hearing the dialogue. We listen to age-appropriate audio books in the car, because they help him work on processing verbal speech.

As far as social skills go, the use of social skills pictures and social skills curriculum can help him understand social situations better.

These are geared to kids with an ASD but might be helpful:

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Skills-Picture-School-Beyond/dp/1932565353/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419880254&sr=1-2&keywords=social+skills+picture+book

http://www.amazon.com/Asperkids-Secret-Book-Social-Rules/dp/1849059152/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419880189&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=social+skills+detective+tween[/quote]

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