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Last month I was a guest speaker at Breathing Underwater radio show at WCOM. We talked mostly about autism and social skills groups that I lead. You can hear the podcast of the show:
WCOM is a community radio station with a studio in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina, broadcasting [...]
On March 5th, 2010, Raleigh’s News and Observer published an article about insurance companies not covering mental health and “behavioral” treatment for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), including Aspergers. I have been leading social skills groups for children and teenagers with Aspergers and other ASD’s for over a decade [...]
Perhaps the most frequent call or e-mail I receive is to inquire about joining one of the Social Skills groups I lead. So, the following is a description of the groups and of the procedures for joining.
I lead three groups – one for 5th and 6th graders, one for 7th and 8th graders, and [...]
As many of you know, I lead several social skills groups for kids and teenagers with Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism. Six group members has always been my maximum for my groups. Recently, a boy was ready to join the high school group a little while before another boy was going to graduate from the group. [...]
Craig had pretty much never had a friend. Every social interaction was torture for him. He had been a target of teasing, ridicule, and bullying from the time he was a very young child. He had been hurt so many times by social rejection that it had become the norm for him. He even began [...]
More often than any other question, I am asked to describe my social skills groups. I lead three groups, for upper elementary school students, middle school students, and high school students. While no particular diagnosis is required for a child to be in one of these groups, most have diagnoses of Aspergers Disorder [...]
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