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[quote=Anonymous]Federal law makes clear that the purpose of special education is to prepare students with disabilities for “further education, employment, and independent living,” all of which require social competency

You need very specific goals to make this happen. Like this, but aligned with your child’s needs:

In the context of a conversational small-group setting with similar-aged peers, Larlo will independently ask 3 consecutive questions of peers about the peers topic of interest. Data will be recorded 5 times per day until Larlo responds independently during an average 80% of recorded instances across 5 consecutive days. This skill will then be generalized across 2 different peers and 2 different settings meeting the same criteria.

If you get enough kids with goals like this they will hire a social skills teacher or at minimum create a social skills class.

That’s the way I’ve always seen it play out.

Hire an advocate and a lawyer if you’re getting push back from the school.[/quote]

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