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What are effective strategies that works?

Social skills should be taught in a group setting with other kids who are around the same age and developmental level as your child.
ensure it is evidence-based, meaning it actually works.
a program that's parent-assisted. What that means is you, as a parent, want to be included in the treatment and you want to act as a social coach to your kid when they are not in a social skills group, which is the vast majority of the time.
There needs to be a didactic lesson each week when they are targeting one type of skill using concrete rules and social etiquette.
There needs to be demonstration of what these skills are supposed to look like. These are called "role-playing exercises," which sometimes show what to do but also show what not to do.
opportunity to practice the skills in the session. That's called, "behavioral rehearsal," where they are practicing the newly learned skill and receiving performance feedback from the coaching team.
homework assignment each week, where they are practicing that new skill in the real world, hopefully, with parent assistance.