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Teaching Social Skills to Children with Asperger’s & HFA: Guidelines for Parents & Teachers

This post will provide some crucial guidelines for how parents and educators can teach social skills to children with Asperger’s (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) at home and in the classroom. 

We will discuss the following:
  • Components to a good social skills training program
  • The actual process of teaching social skills
  • Teaching social skills to a group of students
  • Why Asperger's and HFA is largely a disorder of social skills

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Understanding Theory of Mind Deficits in Autistic Children: Misbehavior or Misunderstanding?

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