January 17, 2012 ISSUE
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Autism

120117 - featureIt can be a challenge to draw children with autism spectrum disorders out of their own worlds—into the classroom and onto the playground. As a result, peer interactions and social skills are a growing focus of communication sciences and disorders professionals. Some are training typically developing children to involve peers with ASDs in play or using social stories to teach children with ASDs how to interact more successfully with peers.


Come Play With Me

by Howard Goldstein & Kathy Thiemann-Bourque

Social communication is reciprocal and involves give-and-take. Training typical peers to facilitate social situations with students with autism can be very effective.

What's the Story?

by Tiffany Hutchins

The social story approach has become one of the most popular ways to address the social-cognitive difficulties characteristic of ASDs. What’s less clear, though, is what exactly social stories are and how best to use them.

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