Description of how to do “Lunch Bunch”: http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/WhiteCountySD/WhiteCountySD/SubDepartments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Lunch%20Bunch.pdf

What I would do in a lunch time group:

1. Make sure the student is ok with having other students help him with his social skills

2. Ask for volunteers from the children’s classes (make sure the student approves the choices)

3. Sponsor a lunch where they all interact normally and I observe the students

4. Have a separate lunch where I just meet with the peers and ask them what makes the students (with special needs) stand out, what could they work on

5. Have more lunches with everyone together where we talk about one social skill each time and practice it.  Also, meet individually with the students with special needs and make an action plan with them based on what their peers are noticing the most.

Third Option:

Go into the cafeteria with the students and observe behaviors that need to be addressed in private sessions and remind them of skills you’ve been working on