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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a special education teacher who works with lots of kids with autism (in the gen ed setting so generally high-functioning). You seem to be seeking a neurodiversity-affirming provider. That’s a fairly new approach, one I have only been learning about the past 2 years or so. There are still many parents even who take the approach that they want their kids to learn to behave as (what they see as) “normal” as possible and use ABA etc as well as ask me for [b]IEP goals that their child will approach peers on the playground to initiate play and start conversation (when their child very clearly does not have any interest in doing so[/b]). So I don’t know that your pediatrician is wrong persay but it isn’t the currently thought of best approach. But their approach is still a very common practice and viewpoint among parents and professionals. You have to decide if you can work around it.[/quote]

NP.  The child has no interest then but may in the future and may see the benefit after doing it successfully.  That's why parents continue to ask for those IEP goals rather than support their DC in their preferred social avoidance.[/quote]

I understand why the parents want this type of goal. However, there should be free time during the school day for students to choose what they want to do and take a break from being told what to do. Just like their non-disabled peers get. And if a student wants to do a solo activity and not initiate conversation or play with peers they should be able to choose that at 10 years old. Just as some of their non-disabled peers do.

Initiating play when the student is not interested is not part of the neurodiverse-affirming approach:
https://therapistndc.org/neurodiversity-affirming-therapy/[/quote]

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