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Cunningham, Allison B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Designing effective treatments for improving early social behaviors in autism has been identified as a critical research need. One barrier to drawing conclusions about optimal treatments for children with autism is the use of highly varied dependent measures in the treatment literature. Contributing to this is the absence of "gold standard"…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Autism, Young Children, Interpersonal Relationship
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Koenig, Kathleen; De Los Reyes, Andres; Cicchetti, Domenic; Scahill, Lawrence; Klin, Ami – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
A consistent result in the evaluation of group-delivered intervention to promote social reciprocity in children with PDDs is that outcome data are inconclusive. Lack of robust evidence of efficacy confounds understanding of these interventions and their value to the field. It is conceivable that the construct of impaired social reciprocity in PDD…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Group Activities
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Rogers, Sally J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2000
This article reviews social interventions with demonstrated empirical support that facilitate socialization in children with autism. It reviews interventions by age group and by type of intervention used, beginning with interventions to improve preschoolers' social interaction, then moving to school-age children's interactions, and closing with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Voeller, Kytja K. S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
This paper explores the neural systems underlying social behaviors as they pertain to autism. It discusses major channels for transmission of social-emotional information, neural pathways subserving social behaviors, and social cognition in autism. A hypothesis of autism based on deviant development of the widely distributed neural system…
Descriptors: Autism, Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes, Etiology
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Williams, T. I. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
The article describes a social skills training group for 10 British autistic children (ages 9-16 years) which aimed to integrate them into the regular classroom. The weekly sessions were held over 4 years and followed guidelines of G. Mesibov and S. Spence. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Children, Foreign Countries
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Bryson, Susan E.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
This case study describes a 13-year-old female with autism, mutism, hyperlexia, and spelling ability. Analysis indicated her reading and spelling abilities were dominated by visual rather than phonological processes. Most striking was an apparent social awakening during the 3.5 month period of the study, possibly related to the onset of puberty.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Case Studies, Emotional Development