The impact of social and emotional skills on educational, career, and life outcomes is well supported in the research literature. Schools are increasingly implementing universal curricula to teach social and emotional skills to all students. Today's climate of accountability places pressure on school administrators and policy makers to evaluate…

In contrast to Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI), there are far fewer meta-analyses evaluating Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs) (Schreibman et al., 2015). Indeed, Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)--a prominent NDBI--lacks meta-analytic studies. In the context of developing a line of research on the…