Social Skills Training with Verbal Autistic Adolescents: A Case Study Approach
Description:
Autistic adolescents need direct, systematic training of social skills since major difficulties in communication, lack of empathy, and various changes during adolescence present major roadblocks to the acquisition of normal peer relationships and increasing independence. A case study approach was utilized to examine treatment effects of a social skills training program implemented with four autistic adolescent boys in a naturalistic setting. Findings based on objective measures and subjective r…
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Date:
August 1988
Creator:
Nichols, Jill Howard