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Ágústa Á. Arnardóttir; Laufey Á. Guðmundsdóttir; Dagmar Kr. Hannesdóttir; Freyr Halldórsson; Helga Auðardóttir; Berglind Sveinbjörnsdóttir – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: Social skills difficulties among children on the autism spectrum can impede social, emotional, and academic development, especially with increasing age and social demands. This pilot study examined the efficacy of a 5-week skill-building program for children on the autism spectrum. Although effective social skills programs are available…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Evaluation, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence
Emily Fourie; Szu-Ching Lu; Jonathan Delafield-Butt; Susan M. Rivera – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autistic individuals often exhibit motor atypicalities, which may relate to difficulties in social communication. This study utilized a smart tablet activity to computationally characterize motor control by testing adherence to the two-thirds power law (2/3 PL), which captures a systematic covariation between velocity and curvature in motor…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychomotor Skills
Zijie Ma; Wangqian Fu; Peidi Gu; He Siting; Yang Liujing; Wei Zhou – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study examined parental perception of the importance of friendship and five other educational outcomes from 101 Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorders between the ages of 3 and 12 years. Results showed Chinese parents considered friendship less important than social skills, emotional development, and physical skills and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Friendship, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries
Jane Shkel; Alicia Geng; Elise Pilchak; Maria Estefania Millan; Jessica M. Schwartzman; Rachel Schuck; Maria Victoria Bundang; Agatha Barnowski; Devon M. Slap; Sydney Stratford; Antonio Y. Hardan; Jennifer M. Phillips; Grace W. Gengoux – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Despite the popularity of social skills groups, there remains a need for empirical investigation of treatment effects, especially when targeting pivotal aspects of social functioning such as initiations to peers. The goal of the present study was to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a 12-week social intervention (SUCCESS), which combined an…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Preschool Children, Parent Education, Intervention
Shahar Bar Yehuda; Nirit Bauminger-Zviely – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Coordinating a physical movement in time and space with social and nonsocial partners to achieve a shared goal -- "joint action" (JA) -- characterizes many peer-engagement situations that pose challenges for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This cross-sectional study examined development of JA capabilities comparing ASD…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Preadolescents
Ronit Saban-Bezalel; Esther Ben-Itzchak; Ditza A. Zachor – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: Follow-up studies of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in early childhood that focus on friendship formation during adolescence are scarce. The present study focused on exploring characteristics possibly related to the ability to establish friendships during adolescence among children diagnosed with ASD in…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Friendship
Mateusz Platos; Kinga Wojaczek; Elizabeth A. Laugeson – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
PEERS® for Young Adults is an evidence-based program aimed at teaching social skills needed to establish and maintain close relationships, including friendship and romantic relationships. The study investigated the effects of the Polish adaptation of the curriculum on the social functioning of adults on the autism spectrum. Fifteen young adults…
Descriptors: Friendship, Dating (Social), Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intimacy
Melanie Labusch; Manuel Perea; Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal; Isabel Bofill-Moscardó; Ángel Carrasco-Tornero; Antonio Cañada-Pérez; Ana García-Blanco – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
A potential underlying mechanism associated with the difficulties in social interactions in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) concerns the abnormal development of moral reasoning. The present study examined utilitarian and deontological judgments in impersonal and personal moral dilemmas, comparing 66 individuals with ASD and 61 typically…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Decision Making
Uchong Lao; Yan Li; Wuxia Bai; Yu Wang; Yongmei Li; Yixiang Xie; Xiaoqian Huang; Huilin Zhu; Xiaobing Zou – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is a group-based social skills training program for adolescents on the autism spectrum. Although the program has been shown to be effective in improving social skills in autistic adolescents, evidence of its effectiveness from the Mandarin-speaking Chinese…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence, Training
Vinen, Zoe; Clark, Megan; Dissanayake, Cheryl – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
The school-age outcomes of autistic children who received early interventions (EI) remains limited. Adaptive functioning, social, peer play skills, problem behaviours, and attitudes towards school of 31 autistic children who received community-based group early start Denver model (G-ESDM) were compared to 28 age matched autistic children who…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sophie Carruthers; Tony Charman; Kathy Leadbitter; Ceri Ellis; Lauren Taylor; Heather Moore; Carol Taylor; Kirsty James; Matea Balabanovska; Sophie Langhorne; Catherine Aldred; Vicky Slonims; Vicki Grahame; Patricia Howlin; Helen McConachie; Jeremy Parr; Richard Emsley; Ann Le Couteur; Jonathan Green; Andrew Pickles; PACT-G Trial Group – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Yuchen Cheng; Loukia Bololia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Today, the global prevalence of autism is high and continues to increase dramatically. Effective support and interventions are therefore warranted. Augmented reality (AR), one of the recent modalities of immersive technology, is gaining traction in autism interventions. However, there is currently a lack of reviews on the use of AR in children…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Eva Yin-han Chung; Kenneth Kuen-fung Sin; Daniel Hung-kay Chow – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Evidence-based robotic intervention programmes for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been limited. As yet, there is insufficient evidence to inform therapists, teachers, and service providers on effectiveness of robotic intervention to enhance social development and participation of children with ASD in a real context. This study…
Descriptors: Robotics, Intervention, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Petursdottir, Anna-Lind; Gudmundsdottir, Thorhalla – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study assessed the effects of portable video modeling on social interactions of four children with autism, three boys and one girl, 4- to 5-year-olds, in preschools in Iceland. Participants were shown 1-min videos on a small handheld device where a peer model initiated social interactions and played with two peers. A…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology), Preschool Children, Peer Influence
Effects of Adaptive Prompts in Virtual Reality-Based Social Skills Training for Children with Autism
Jewoong Moon; Fengfeng Ke – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The purpose of this single-case experimental design (SCED) study is to investigate how adaptive prompts in virtual reality (VR)-based social skills training affect the social skills performance of autistic children. Adaptive prompts are driven by autistic children's emotional states. To integrate adaptive prompts in VR-based training, we conducted…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Early Adolescents