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It is important to support students with ASD in their social endeavors because the social skills that other students develop and use without thinking can be sources of struggle and conflict. Because of this, middle and high school can be turbulent times for a student with ASD, as more than ever social interaction plays an integral role to the education process and the everyday life of our students. As teachers, we can help students with ASD by assisting them with the development of these social skills when able. Specifically, modelling social behavior, explaining and enforcing positive behavior, and explicitly laying out your expectations. Additionally, you can meaningfully utilize group-work and selective pairing in your classroom to ensure that students with ASD are not put into situation that would result in social tension or conflict.

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It is important to support a student with ASD socially because as a teacher, you will interact with this student on a daily basis, which provides many opportunities to model and monitor proper social behavior. This can be especially challenging in secondary education because at this stage in adolescence, students are beginning to respect their peers' opinions over anyone else's and this can lead to cliques, exclusion, and bullying. For a student with ASD, this extreme social behavior in school can be intimidating and/or frustrating. One way to combat these feelings in a student is to work on practicing basic life skills that reflect positive social interactions , such as respecting one's personal space, and basic greetings. The teacher can encourage this positive behavior by making it part of a routine, and enforcing that routine every day in her classroom.

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It is important to support a student with ASD socially because our role as a secondary educator is to prepare them for the future, whatever they may be doing. We have an obligation to help students with ASD to understand social norms and explain to them why they can or cannot do something to others. I could also support these students socially by using group work that allows them to communicate and learn from other academically and socially.

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It's important for teachers to support secondary students with ASD and routinely model positive social behavior because students with ASD have social deficits that affect their communication with others. ASD students typically don't understand relationships and how to positively nourish relationships. It's important that teachers model correct and incorrect social interaction so that the student can learn right from wrong and develop personal relationships. Working with the student and reading social scenarios and reflecting on whether the behavior was positive or negative could be a quick way for the student to practice their understanding and reflection of social scenarios.

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I think supporting students with ASD socially is especially important in secondary education because they need to leave secondary education prepared to enter the "real world". They need tools to use to be able to integrate successfully into society. One strategy I would use is to model appropriate behavior and to have students reflect on how they would feel if someone behaved the way they did in an inappropriate situation.

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Students with ASD typically are unaware of social norms and how their peers perceive them. I think social support is extremely important because typically students want to make friends and fit in, especially in secondary education. They will need these skills for their future careers and need to be able to build these social skills when they still have a lot of support from other people. I think the best way to support a child with social needs is to make them aware of the social norms and how it may make others feel when they act a certain way. It may help to put them in the other student's shoes. For example, how would they feel if someone else were to cut them off in a group discussion?

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It is important to support students with ASD socially because this could be the only obstacle they have to learning in your classroom. In the secondary education classroom, these students are getting closer to being adults on their own, so the social aspect of life is extremely important. Some other ways to support students with ASD is to coach them through social situations and contexts to help them understand what behaviors are expected and unexpected and how those behaviors affect others. Another way to support a student with ASD is to educate peers and teachers about what ASD means and what it can sometimes look like.

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Secondary education is a place where we prepare students to go forth and conquer the real world. At this point in life, we assume that our students understand things like social cues and accepted behavior. It's important to support ASD students because they might need some extra help preparing for this transition. I could support this student by immersing them as much as possible in classroom situations that replicate things that happen outside of the classroom. If the student struggles in these experiences, I can talk out the decisions/thoughts with them and explain where thinking might have veered off the right path.

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It is important to support a student with ASD socially because they still have the potential to add so much. They have a real need to be coached socially, and if social coaching enables them to participate, then it is paramount that they be given all the help that can be given. Ways to support these students can include one on one conversations regarding social situations, provide literature, and inform classmates of the individual's disability.