Social Skills Group activities?

I'm thinking if they are high school students they are probably quite able?  Agree asking them what problems they want to work on is a good idea!  They may also be able to offer each other solutions.

Personally I'm a big fan of the girl with the curly hair (Alis Rowe).  I think her ideas around 'social energy' are especially useful and would be good to look at in your group. I'd recomend looking up her website and getting some of her books, especially the one on that subject. I think this would be a good place to start: it's great to learn how to behave like a neurotypical.  But you can't make them neurotypical. Learning about and managing the energy it takes is a useful skill.

When it gets onto actual social skills, I think Don Gabor's 'How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends' is seen as a good starting point.

It seems to me that when people talk about 'body language' often what they are actually talking about is 'face language'.  I think it's maybe better to start off with telling the difference between comfortable/relaxed and uncomfortable/tense, which is really all you need to tell if you are doing well in a conversation or making the person uncomfortable! (Though of course the person may be trying to be 'polite' in face language! And may not want you to draw attention to any tenseness...).  A book I like is Joe Navarro's What Every Body is Saying, as it concentrates on comfortable/uncomfortable as shown in bodily signs.

The Girl With The Curly Hair books you could possibly use in group.  The others you'd probably want to pull some stuff out of.  The last especially gets into pretty complex stuff: if you have any really interested students they might want to read it themselves.

I'm thinking if they are high school students they are probably quite able?  Agree asking them what problems they want to work on is a good idea!  They may also be able to offer each other solutions.

Personally I'm a big fan of the girl with the curly hair (Alis Rowe).  I think her ideas around 'social energy' are especially useful and would be good to look at in your group. I'd recomend looking up her website and getting some of her books, especially the one on that subject. I think this would be a good place to start: it's great to learn how to behave like a neurotypical.  But you can't make them neurotypical. Learning about and managing the energy it takes is a useful skill.

When it gets onto actual social skills, I think Don Gabor's 'How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends' is seen as a good starting point.

It seems to me that when people talk about 'body language' often what they are actually talking about is 'face language'.  I think it's maybe better to start off with telling the difference between comfortable/relaxed and uncomfortable/tense, which is really all you need to tell if you are doing well in a conversation or making the person uncomfortable! (Though of course the person may be trying to be 'polite' in face language! And may not want you to draw attention to any tenseness...).  A book I like is Joe Navarro's What Every Body is Saying, as it concentrates on comfortable/uncomfortable as shown in bodily signs.

The Girl With The Curly Hair books you could possibly use in group.  The others you'd probably want to pull some stuff out of.  The last especially gets into pretty complex stuff: if you have any really interested students they might want to read it themselves.