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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.