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To: Lane3 who wrote (3735)	1/27/2001 8:32:57 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

You can teach everything to a willing student who has the intelligence to learn. We are lucky in that my son has a very good memory. If we role play with him he can memorize a given situation- the problem is he won't be able to generalize from that situation to one slightly different. So we have to role play as many possible situations as possible- teaching and mentioning body language for both him, and for the other person. For example- we say "if another person steps away from you- you were either too close or they don't like you- try to find a way to go do something else" (because he really can't tell the difference between people who are just uncomfortab;e with his closeness and people who really want to get away from him). And then we act out some different situations. We've told him not to do the punching thing boys do with each other- because he can't moderate his intensity, and he can't tell when it is in fun, or when the other kid is pissed off. If you've ever watched 3rd grade boys they are constantly touching each other- shoving, hitting, etc- but to do that, you need to be able to sense that you are doing it appropriately. My son is also very large for his age- which means he can hurt people accidently- so we take that into consideration too. Although being large has saved him from being physically picked on. Kids still pick on him verbally because he is different, though. We go through magazines and movies constantly asking him to guess what the people are feeling or thinking- so we can get him cued in to memorizing what angry faces, and puzzled faces and happy faces etc look like. He is much better than he was. I cannot tell you how much improvement we've seen in the past year since we finally forced the school to put him in regular ed. And his academics are above grade level now for many subjects.

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