Social Skills Therapy Groups – Evaluating the Behavioral and Neural Impact for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

• By: Latha V. Soorya, PhD, BCBA Ting Wang, PhD Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• January 1st, 2009
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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...