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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]I want my kid to be the most 'needy' one in the group.[/b] In the past group they happily told me he was often their peer model, which is how I first knew that the group wasn't what I had wanted. They focused a lot on taking turns, basic manners (saying hello and goodbye, eye contact, etc.), sharing, listening to each other etc. etc. which are all skills that in a group setting my son is more than capable of. But when it comes to negotiating free play, joining in appropriately, handling play the way someone else wants it, etc. etc. he definitely needs practice. 
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Also, why do you want this?  My son is towards the top of his social skills group, but there are still things he needs to learn and work on.  But it makes him feel great to be in a setting where he's good at something and other kids look up to him.  You don't need your kid to be the "most needy."  You just need the class to focus on some skills that he needs to work on vs. all skills that he has already mastered.[/quote]

+1.  My child did OT paired with a child who had fairly severe autism (was close to non-verbal).  He is ordinarily very spazzy, often too rough and sometimes inattentive to other children's reactions -- with her, he totally slowed down, was gentle, and went the extra mile to be attentive to her reaction.  
I think maybe your bad experience was driven by the leader facilitating the group - -who either misrepresented to you what skills the group would focus on, or were not skilled enough to deliver on their representations.  (Or maybe it was a mutual miscommunication about goals.)  
I haven't done social skills groups, I admit, so am of limited use on this thread.  But I will note that you are going to turn off a lot of SN parents by saying that you don't want your kid in classes with kids that are more "needy" than yours.  All our kids have been excluded a lot from different things -- so a lot of SN parents are very sensitive to this kind of statement.  I'm sure you didn't mean it the way it came across, though.[/quote]

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