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Fuxin Lian; Gabrielle T. Lee; Yan Long; Weina Ma; Mian Wang – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seem to have difficulty dealing with complex social situations, which is likely related to their challenges in understanding others' perspectives, according to the Theory of Mind (ToM). The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the effect of multiple exemplar training (MET) on the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Theory of Mind
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Nisar Abid; Sarfraz Aslam; Asmaa Azeem; Sharareh Shahidi-Hamedani – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is significantly known as social interaction impairment that can be reduced through early school-age intervention. The quasi-experimental research design was used to examine the effect of applied behavior analysis treatment on ASD children's interpersonal skills. The researchers used a purposive sampling technique to…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Applied Behavior Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence
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Georgianna Moraitopoulou; Hannah Pickard; Emily Simonoff; Andrew Pickles; Rachael Bedford; Virginia Carter Leno – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The alexithymia hypothesis posits that specific aspects of the autistic socio-cognitive profile, namely emotion recognition difficulties, can be explained by the increased prevalence of alexithymia in autistic populations. However, this hypothesis has largely been tested in adults. We tested whether co-occurring alexithymia could account for…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Candida C. Peterson; Virginia Slaughter – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
Moral reasoning and theory of mind (ToM) are two distinct but related aspects of social cognition. While past research has clearly documented serious delays in ToM development for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) both cross-sectionally (e.g. Happe, 1995) and longitudinally (Peterson & Wellman, 2020) much less is known about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elementary School Students, Special Needs Students
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Janice Ka-Yan Chan; Theodore Ching-Kong Cheung; Chi-Wai Chan; Fan Fang; Kelly Yee-Ching Lai; Xiang Sun; Helen O'Reilly; Ofer Golan; Carrie Allison; Simon Baron-Cohen; Patrick Wing-Leung Leung – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
"The Transporters" intervention contains 15 animated episodes that autistic children watch daily for a month and learn emotion recognition through stories depicting social interactions between vehicle characters with grafted human faces, expressing emotions. Its automated, home-based format is cost-effective. This study included four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Yizengaw, Simegn Sendek – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder typically appears prior to the age of three years, and seriously limits the normal development of children. However, there is a wide variety of effective intervention programs and strategies designed to help children with autism. Hence, this research aimed to see the effect of social skills training on…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Interpersonal Relationship
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Gray Atherton; Emily Dawson; Liam Cross – American Journal of Play, 2024
The authors discuss how board games offer individuals with autism (who often struggle with social settings and require structured outlets for building relationships) an affordable, naturalistic, collaborative environment that is stimulating, engaging, and educational. Board games, they assert, provide opportunities to practice social skills,…
Descriptors: Games, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Relationship, Cooperation
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Lilan Liu; Jianghua Lei; Chen Wang – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
Intervention using social stories is a widely used strategy for children with autism spectrum disorder. However, empirical studies on the efficacy of social stories in improving social interaction have yielded mixed results, and such research in China is scarce. This study examined the effectiveness of social stories for increasing social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elementary School Students, Special Education
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Horace H. S. Ip; Simpson W. L. Wong; Dorothy F. Y. Chan; Chen Li; Lo Lo Kon; Po Ke Ma; Kate S. Y. Lau; Julia Byrne – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Social-emotional deficits in school-aged children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) greatly hinder these children from fully participating in various school activities in the inclusive education setting. Previous studies have demonstrated evidence regarding the effectiveness of using virtual reality (VR) for enhancing the children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Preadolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Deirdre MacEvilly; Katie Maguire; Geraldine Brosnan; Louise Gaffney – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
In the last decade, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have observed an unprecedented rise in young children presenting with suicidal ideation, needing urgent assessment and treatment. Once stabilised, CAMHS professionals often refer these children to speech and language therapists (SLTs) for assessment of and support for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Health
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Paldam, Ella; Roepstorff, Andreas; Steensgaard, Rikke; Lundsgaard, Stine Strøm; Steensig, Jakob; Gebauer, Line – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background & aims: How can non-autistic adults facilitate social learning with children on the spectrum? A new theoretical understanding of autism is currently emerging that has made this question more relevant than ever. At the intersection of two growing research areas in the field of autism, the borderland that separates the experience of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Social Development, Play
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Liang, Shuang; Zheng, Rui-Xuan; Zhang, Li-Li; Liu, Yi-Mei; Ge, Ke-Juan; Zhou, Zi-Yun; Wang, Lei – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Objective: This study intends to explore the effect of parent-training program on the rehabilitation intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Chinese-speaking areas of China by offering parent skill training and psychology counseling. Methods: From January 2018 to June 2019, a total of 80 children diagnosed with ASD from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Program Effectiveness, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Collins, J.; Barnoux, M.; Langdon, P. E. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: The theoretical understanding of firesetting behaviour has predominantly been developed with men in prisons or psychiatric hospitals without neurodevelopmental disabilities. Consequently, there is a lack of evidence regarding the validity of current theory when applied to adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism. Method:…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Christina Symeonidou; Anna Robinson – International Journal of Nurture in Education, 2018
Nurture groups (NGs) are recognised as an effective early practice for the development of children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). Early educators outline enhanced social and emotional development, academic attainment and secure attachments with peers and adults. Nevertheless, there is limited data reporting on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Caring, At Risk Students