What is social participation?
Social participation is spending time and doing activities with others.
This can involve doing activities that you are interested in with others, such as joining an after school class, club, or sport team, attending a special event at school or in the community (for example: a movie, dance or concert, parade, sports game, museum, park, restaurant).
Social participation also includes activities in the community such as grocery shopping, using public transportation, post office services or the library.
Self-care activities such as meal preparation, bathing or even school related activities can also improve the ability for participate independently in the community.

What are social participation goals?
Social Participation Goals could focus on trying out new activities while meeting new people or being more involved in familiar activities by interacting more with others or taking a more active role while doing it.
Adolescents and young adults with ASD learn to identify and set social participation goals using the SPAN program, while understanding their personal strengths and challenges, in order to choose a functional goal and develop a detailed plan with specific steps and strategies to help accomplish it.