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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a special ed teacher. One issue is I don’t have any time to run a social skills group in my day regularly. Sometimes I can pull a small group to do a morning meeting but I have about 10-15 minutes total and usually I use that time to get quick data updates or administer evaluation testing (not given time for that either). The rest of the day I am teaching academics. When there are group activities I work to help students collaborate with partners and model for them. I observe when I have recess duty (half the time) and try to help students engage with peers. Our guidance counselor does run lunch groups but those are not part of special ed services.

The speech teacher would do them as part of pragmatic speech related services but not everyone qualifies for that.

Finally, one issue as well is that students do not want to miss lunch in the cafeteria to do a lunch group, they don’t want to engage with peers on the playground (very common for students with autism- they want a break from engaging and to do their own thing and I think that’s okay), and they don’t want to participate in brain break games that foster interaction in the room. So I can only do so much when students don’t want to participate.[/quote]

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