Friend making exercises/conversation exercises?

[Guest guest]

My daughter is 7 and she seems to be yearning for friends her age but

she lacks the conversation and social skills to keep the other girls

attention and/or interest. Does anyone know of any conversation

exercises or anything like that that we could work on at home to help

her practice talking to her peers? She isn't mildly autistic but she is

still lacking enough in the social area for it to be causing her a

problem. She is conflicting with herself over wanting to have friends

and how to execute making and keeping them. She opens up to me a lot

more lately, I need ideas on how to get her to do it with kids at

school as well.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 4/18/08 11:55:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

amanda2221981@... writes:

yearning for friends her age but

she lacks the conversation and social skills to keep the other girls

attention and/or interest.

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other ones about activity's

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