SS group: most schools can do this easily. Well, is another question. You're looking for something that has both a direct instruction and a live/laboratory practice component
This is good to know. I did not understand the part about direct instruction and a live/laboratory practice component. What are those ?
Direct instruction would be explicitly teaching social skills, in a counseling or small group setting: When you meet a new person, and you want to try to make friends, you do step 1, 2, 3,.
Practice in a lab setting would be, in the social skills group: now we're going to practice introducing ourselves to each other. Steve, what do you do first?...
Live practice would be introducing yourself to an actual new person to your class.
Ideally, one would want to learn/practice skills in the sheltered social skills group setting until comfortable, then begin with some prepared live practice--where the social skills coach works with a sympathetic member of the natural community (teacher, friendly custodian, empathetic peer) to stage a situation outside of the group, but with a social partner who is in on the skill development goals. From there, one progresses to increasingly naturalistic and independent practice of the skill.
