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Brief Report: Assessment of Intervention Effects on in Vivo Peer Interactions in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
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Dolan, Bridget K.; Van Hecke, Amy V.; Carson, Audrey M.; Karst, Jeffrey S.; Stevens, Sheryl; Schohl, Kirsten A.; Potts, Stephanie; Kahne, Jenna; Linneman, Nina; Remmel, Rheanna; Hummel, Emily – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a randomized controlled trial of a social skills intervention, the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS: Laugeson et al. in "J Autism Dev Disord" 39(4): 596-606, 2009), by coding digitally recorded social interactions between adolescent participants with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Peer Relationship, Adolescents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Increasing Social Interactions of Severely Handicapped Autistic Children.
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Brady, Michael P.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1987
A peer-initiation training procedure was implemented across multiple peer trainers to investigate social interactions between two severely withdrawn autistic children (8 and 10-years-old) and their nonhandicapped peers. Spontaneous interactions increased substantially for one subject and slightly for the other. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Interrelations among Social-Cognitive Skills in Young Children with Autism.
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Carpenter, Malinda; Pennington, Bruce F.; Rogers, Sally J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2002
Evaluation of social-cognitive skills in 23 young children with autism or other developmental delays found tests involving others' attention were more difficult for children with autism than tests involving others' behavior. However, the typical developmental pattern of first sharing, then following, and then directing attention or behavior was…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Autism, Cognitive Development, Developmental Delays
Behavioral Assessment of Social Anxiety in Females with Turner or Fragile X Syndrome.
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Lesniak-Karpiak, Katarzyna; Mazzocco, Michele M. M.; Ross, Judith L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2003
This study compared 29 females with Turner syndrome and 21 females with fragile X syndrome (ages 6-22) on a videotaped role-play interaction with 34 females in a comparison group. Three of eight behavioral measures of social skills differentiated the participant groups. Fragile-X subjects required more time to initiate interactions and Turner…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Children, Congenital Impairments
Social Initiations by Autistic Children to Adults and Other Children.
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Hauck, Margaret; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1995
Comparison of social initiations by 18 children with autism and 13 verbally matched children with mental retardation found autistic children's social initiations were more ritualized and the retarded children's were more playful. Autistic initiation to peers was unrelated to severity of autism, but was related to cognitive skills, whereas retarded…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cognitive Ability, Interaction Process Analysis
Collateral Effects of Parent Training on Family Interactions.
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Koegel, Robert L.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
This study assessed collateral effects during unstructured dinnertime family interactions of two different paradigms for training parents of 17 children with autism. One taught individual target behaviors serially, and the other taught the pivotal responses (PRT) of motivation and responsivity to multiple cues. Results suggested the PRT…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cues, Family Environment