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Ask the SLP – You’ve Been Told Your Child Needs Social Skills… Now What?
This article will provide answers to some important questions parents may have after learning that their child would benefit from social skills group therapy. Question: Why are social skills groups important? Answer: Social skills groups provide children with the...
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Social Skills Interventions: Considering Generalization
It is well known that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulties generalizing newly learned skills. Children with autism frequently cannot apply what they have learned in one situation to a similar - though not identical - situation, especially one related to learned...
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Fostering Successful Social Skill Development in Young Adulthood
A parent recently came to us to ask whether it is important to include social skills goals as part of her son’s high school Individualized Education Plan (IEP). He is a bright young man who has one friend who shares similar interests. He would like to go to college, pursue a professional career,...
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Summer Camp: The Gift of Friendship
Overnight summer camp teaches skills in a variety of disciplines - sports, arts, nature and the like. However, the enduring value of summer camp is not the skills that it teaches, but the values and traits of character that it imparts. A camp experience teaches children to work together more...
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Social Skills Therapy Groups – Evaluating the Behavioral and Neural Impact for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Social dysfunction is the central, unifying feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and perhaps also the most debilitating. Impairments in socialization persist in individuals with ASD regardless of age or language level and are likely to impact quality of life variables, such as employment and...
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Social Skills Groups: What Does the Research Tell Us?
Social skills deficits are considered to be one of the critical diagnostic impairments that define autism and Asperger Syndrome, so it is perhaps not surprising that both school personnel and clinicians in the community frequently recommend that a child or adolescent on the autism spectrum should...
