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Xiaoyi Li; Yongbin Hu; Xianmin Yang; Xinyu Bi; Jinying Zhang; Pengrui Tao – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Virtual reality (VR) has become a promising tool for enhancing social skills in special education, K-12 education, and post-secondary education. However, there is a lack of comprehensive meta-analyses examining the effectiveness of VR social skills training and the factors that moderate its efficacy. In this study, a meta-analysis approach was…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence, Instructional Effectiveness, Technology Uses in Education
Xin Dong; Mack D. Burke; Lisa Sanchez; Lisa Bowman-Perrott – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Developing social competence for preschoolers is an important area for early intervention, especially for young children with emotional and behavioral issues. This single case meta-analysis focused on examining the literature base for social skills interventions for preschoolers. A systematic search of the literature yielded 33 single-case studies…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Skill Development
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
María del Pilar García-Chitiva – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
The Global Agenda 2030 has set out a common pathway that delineates the type of vocational training that higher education institutions (HEIs) should provide to respond to the challenges it sets. Rankings and other metrics are concerned with examining the quality of higher education in terms of research standards or international accreditation.…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Higher Education, Skill Development, Critical Thinking
Montoya-Rodríguez, María M.; de Souza Franco, Vanessa; Tomás Llerena, Clementina; Molina Cobos, Francisco J.; Pizzarossa, Sofía; García, Ana C.; Martínez-Valderrey, Vanesa – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) programs have proliferated significantly in recent years and they are finding their way into different educational and therapeutic purposes. This systematic review aims at analyzing the virtual reality and augmented reality programs designed to promote the development of social skills in individuals…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Intellectual Disability
Domenique Barbaro; Ketan Shankardass – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Social skills are critical to workplace success and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by challenges with these skills contributing to a disproportionate unemployment rate. The aim of this study was to characterize interventions that focus on work-related social skills for individuals with ASD. A scoping review was conducted to map…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Job Skills
Jessica Monahan; Brian Freedman; Kerry Pini; Rebecca Lloyd – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
There has been a recent increase in research on social skills interventions for young adults on the autism spectrum. However, little is known about how autistic adults inform the design and measurement of these interventions. In this systematic literature review, 26 studies published over the past 20 + years were examined following a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Intervention
Paula Partington; George Major; Keith Tudor – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
This article presents the culmination of the first author's experience of work at a Deaf Education Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand, alongside the themes stemming from a literature review on wellbeing and the development and maintenance of social and emotional skills for deaf students in both mainstream and special education. The predominant themes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Students, Well Being
Janette Hynes; Martin Block – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This systematic review aims to describe six types of physical activity interventions utilized with children and young adults ages 5-22 as a treatment for ASD. These interventions include swimming, cycling, neuromuscular training, yoga, sports, and exergaming. This examines the knowledge gaps regarding the details of these interventions via time…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Modification, Thinking Skills
Samantha Burns; Esther Yu; Leah Brathwaite; Maisha Masum; Linda White; Elizabeth Dhuey; Michal Perlman – Review of Education, 2024
Peer collaboration is a foundational skill that emerges in early childhood. Children spend significant time in early educational settings, making it an important setting where young children can learn how to collaborate with peers. However, research on how to support children's collaboration effectively is limited and findings in this area have…
Descriptors: Young Children, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education
Nicole Hanna; Helena Lydon; Jennifer Holloway; Lorna Barry; Edith Walsh – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Social skill interventions have become increasingly popular in recent times, as well as the use of technology to deliver and aid interventions for the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) population. Little research exists on the use of apps to teach social skills to individuals with ASD, in particular the behaviour change procedures that exist within…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Educational Technology
Jdaitawi, Malek; Hussein, Elham Taha; Muhaidat, Fatima; Joudeh, Maisoun Abu – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
In the last decade, major progresses have been made and the flipped learning has been increasingly implemented in diverse educational settings to enhance the physical, cognitive, personal and social abilities of students as well as to improve their learning outcomes. The advantages and challenges of flipped learning have been explored and…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Social Sciences, Humanities, Program Effectiveness
Jingying Chen; Junlin Hu; Kun Zhang; Xiao Zeng; Yuhao Ma; Wenrui Lu; Kai Zhang; Guangshuai Wang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Virtual reality (VR) technology has shown great potential on intervention of social skills for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This review aimed to review the application of VR in current social skills intervention targeting autistic children and evaluate its effect. After searching and screening three databases, we found 20 papers…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Orla Walsh; Conor Linehan; Christian Ryan – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
There is increasing interest in the use of games to scaffold social skills training for autistic children and youth. However, there is no consensus on how to best approach their design, so that learning opportunities are maximised. This article presents a systematic scoping review of empirical studies that use games as social skills training for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Dechsling, Anders; Orm, Stian; Kalandadze, Tamara; Sütterlin, Stefan; Øien, Roald A.; Shic, Frederick; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In the last decade, there has been an increase in publications on technology-based interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Virtual reality based assessments and intervention tools are promising and have shown to be acceptable amongst individuals with ASD. This scoping review reports on 49 studies utilizing virtual reality and augmented…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intervention, Computer Simulation, Interpersonal Competence