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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mean "evidence based" or "peer review?"  They are two different things.  There is lots of evidence based research in social skills and yes, it's not as black and white as diabetes research, but it does make a difference.  And much better than doing nothing.[/quote]

Peer reviewed, but even the evidenced based ones have not been around long meaning the person had them as a child and are now an adult.  Usually when the social skills therapy is evidenced based ones mean that the person had the social skills intervention 2-3 yrs ago at most and they appear to show [i]some[/i] improvement and carryover from what they learned in the therapy a yr or two later.  [b]The difference from having the intervention or not is not terribly impressive and the follow up for most of these programs are usually nonexistent.[/b][/quote]

PP, for God's sake, there isn't a "miracle cure" for social skills. Stop sitting on your butt, wringing your hands, and doing nothing.  You seem to hang everything on one psychiatrist who did your neuropsych eval.   There is research out the wazoo saying social skills trumps even academics.

Even the social skill researchers are aging...

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Intervention makes a difference.  Get with the times.[/quote]

I didn't say We were doing nothing.  DS has been getting instruction in social skills since he got a diagnosis, social skills groups and pragmatic speech therapy With SLP since he was 4 yrs old.  He is now 7.  Interestingly, his cousin who has the same diagnosis and similar neuropsych profile but who is 10 yrs old has not gotten any of these interventions and is doing fine.  Mostly, his parents have been encouraging him in his obsessive interests which is chess and the Rubik's cube rather than spending time in social skills groups. He is currently ranked #1 in their state for chess and #1 in the nation for the Rubik's cube for his age group.  His social skills are still poor but he is admired and has many friends at his school (granted it's a school where one's chess and Rubik's cube prowess is admired.  :-) ).  [/quote]

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