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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so interested in these perspectives from parents of older children. We did some therapies, but we had friends who did more (and less), and I feel like our kids are in about the same place now (age 9). It's hard to know what mattered. One of my issues with social skills groups is that all the children are socially atypical, and that practicing and interacting with them is not much like interacting with typical children in the world, who are so much more socially sophisticated.[/quote]

My thoughts and experience exactly. We saw notable regression from a social skills group-DC started emulated a child who showed these behaviors and DC had shown the behavior prior to group. We dropped out. We have seen notable progress having DC do as much as possible with more socially skilled children-playdates, after school activities, camp, etc. I fear there will come a point where DC won't be able to get playdates with more socially skilled kids, but until then DC is learning a lot from them.[/quote]

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