Action,
I should've also mentioned (my husband reminded me of this) that it helps if our kids can learn self-advocacy skills. Our son's counselors tried to teach him how to handle these taunters and become impervious to them. This didn't work for ours, but it's worth a try. Ours was the stereotypical high IQ case of not reading social cues. Maturity has brought him good social skills but it was a tough, long road.