We are going to sign ds8 up for a social skills group fairly soon (we hope). We just chatted with a recommended boys group counselor yesterday, Ds liked her, as did we. As much as one can feel comfortable at a first meeting like that, I think we were comfortable.
Only a couple of things were a little off, instead of talking about 6-8 weeks, once a week work with ds in a group of boys (as had first been described to us), the counselor made it sound like that time would likely be just a good start, and that dh and I are also going to be in a parents group while ds does his work. I don't mind being in the group, but we are over-programmed as it is so fitting this is will be less than convenient. Fitting it in for the next 9 months seems really really really hard to fathom right now.
I am going to look into other programs, if I can find any other good sounding ones. Does anyone have any experience sending a child to a group like this? What did you find to be the biggest benefits? The counselor did state that ds might be in relatively good shape to go for several weeks, take a break and see how things go, which would be my inclination/hope.
I am trying not to sound too lame, trying to fit our life around the dr's advice...one of the things we were hoping to do is sign ds up at the tae kwon do school where one of his new/few friends takes class. He's taken a couple intro classes and would be signing up on Tuesday...his friend has seen him there and was so excited he was going to be starting. I guess we can figure out something else to drop.
One very good bit of news is that the school might be able to do the tiny bit of recommended speech therapy with ds, and start pretty soon - we have been told 6 mos to a YEAR wait list at the places I've called in my insurance network!!
