Prevention of absenteeism and school failure in students with ASD: Improving the transition from primary to secondary school

Social skills are important because they allow us to interact with each other with predictability, so that we can more readily understand each other and be understood. Social skills such as helping, demanding help or information, thanking, apologizing, initiating a conversation in any subject, answering the questions, following the rules, awaiting his turn, collaborating, accepting critics, demanding feedback for the work he has done, introducing himself provides his adaptation to the society, his integration in society, his communication and interaction with his peers and others (Çifci and Sucuoglu, 2004). 

Social skills which are one of the tools to enable social adaptation, to create social relations and to maintain existing social relations during social development are learned during the first years of the life and leads to important long and short term effects over the life of the individual. (Gülay and Akman, 2009). Within this context, it is important to improve and support social skills of children which determine life quality and enable their adaptation to the 

environment beginning from the school period.   

On the other hand, bullying is unwanted, aggressive behaviour among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behaviour is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.