Need advice on intro social/study class to teen

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Hi all. Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on the best way to introduce

the idea of the social/study skills class for ASD my son will be in next year

(9th grade). He has had private social skills/study, but this is his first year

with IEP and services at school. What I am concerned with is the idea coming

out demeaning to him or offensive in some way. With the private stuff, he was

younger and I was just kind of vague about why we were there. He did used to

tell me he would prefer to do the groups at school with kids he knew, so there

is that.

But I am worried and it is making me hesitate. How do you tell someone they

need a special class for social skills and study skills just for ASD in a

postive and encouraging way? Maybe I am overthinking this?

And there will be the case worker and the class facilitator--something else new

for him. How do I prepare him for this so it isn't some big shock on the first

week of school? He was really unaware of his 504 Plan. This was not

intentional on my part; I didn't realize how little he was picking up on until

his autism eval. Some things came out that made me aware.

And he is a typical 14yo--thinks he knows everything and wants help with

nothing.

I plan on finding out who is teacher is and trying to contact her before school

starts to get a suggestion and find out how she is planning on handling it. But

I can't count on that, and I'm always up for some BTDT!