Asperger’s | autism | conversation | eye contact | intervention | social skills | social stories | video
Social Stories can be combined with video modeling to help to teach complex social skills to children with Asperger's Disorder.
This study looked to see if 15 weeks of Social Story therapy combined with video models could teach social skills to a boy (9 years old) with Asperger's Disorder. The combined interventions helped to teach eye contact and starting conversations, but they did not help to teach smiling. It was hard for the boy to master smiling and his level of smiling changed a lot throughout the treatment. While his eye contact did improve during therapy, it seemed to go back down once therapy was stopped. While the boy learned to start conversations in the treatment setting, he did not do a good job of transferring the skill to school.
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