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How to Help Your Autistic Child in the Classroom

Over the years, my sons aides and teachers have worked together with us to help my son try to stay in the classroom. He is in an inclusion classroom, but sometimes struggles with the environment. What are some ways to help a child remain inside the classroom?

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Social Skills Groups For Kids With Special Needs

About a year into my child’s social skills group, me and few other parents began to talk. There were five kids in our group. When the kids are in a session, the parents wait in the lobby. This particular facility allows the parents to leave during this time. Sometimes we go shopping or for a walk. Often, we stay. We read or write on a laptop (that would be me) or we talk. This one time we began discussing how valuable we all felt these social skills groups were for our children. And, we came up with an idea: To ask our case workers for a second group.