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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would really try to make both work even if its a different soccer team. They will feed on each other; he learns the ideas in class and puts them in practice with the team and vice versa. Having a real life social skills environment parallel to a clinical class will help it make sense.[/quote]

There’s very scanty evidence that social skills can be taught that way, if any. That’s not to say OP shouldn’t try out a social skills class - but truly there is not enough benefit to it to do a lot of gymnastics with the schedule. 7 is also probably too young to learn social skills from a didactic adult-led approach. Now that my kid is a teen I can sort of see how social skills instruction might benefit him - the same way NT adults like advice on things like “how to get ahead at work” and “how to make friends” But at 7, no. The main function of social skills classes/groups was to interact with other kids, which OP’s kid will do in soccer, and get lots of health and leisure benefits as as well. [/quote]

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