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[quote=Anonymous]I am an adult leader for a youth organization. One of the kids seems a little bit off - the parents never mentioned anything regarding any special needs but the child's behavior is just not like the other kids. You can tell the child wants to fit in but they don't verbally communicate to engage the other kids. Their behavior is more at a preschool level and these kids are 10. The child gets into the other kids' personal space, doesn't seem to understand when the other kids are being annoyed by their actions, pushes kids to be first in line, seems to shut down during anything remotely educational.

Reading this, I realize most people are going to say autism but I really don't think this child is autistic.

My question - how can I help the child fit into this organization? How can I help this child learn socially acceptable behaviors around the other kids? How can I help the other kids accept the child even though the behavior is really annoying to them? We don't know of any diagnosis so it's not like we can tell the other kids so and so is disabled in this way. be more understanding. all they see is a perfectly normal kid behaving very inappropriately.[/quote]

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