Research: Enhancing the Conversation Skills of a Boy with Asperger’s Disorder through Social Stories(TM) and Video Modeling

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Authored by Scattone, D. in J Autism Dev Disord, Volume 38, Issue 2, p. 395-400, (2008).

Article summary (posted Apr 28, 2008):

Video modeling therapy with Social Story therapy can result in an increase in social skills in a child with Asperger's Disorder.

This study looked to see if Social Stories could be combined with video modeling to make a good intervention program to teach social skills to a 9-year-old boy with Asperger's Disorder. The therapy program worked, but smiling was the hardest skill for the boy and therefore improved the least. Eye contact improved only slightly. The boy showed a large increase in his ability to start conversations. He also used these improved social skills with his peers at school.

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Asperger Syndrome, autism, intervention, school, social skills groups, social stories, therapy, video-modeling techniques
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