Episode 150 - Social Skill Curricula

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

If social skills are an important component of human development and individuals with autism often have challenges in learning social skills, there must be a curriculum that lets specialists of all backgrounds teach these important lessons, right? Well, maybe? This week we look at what actual research there is behind commercially-available curricula for teaching social skills and highlight a few of the more promising programs.

Articles discussed this episode:

Bellini, S., Peters, J.K., Benner, L., & Hope, A. (2007). A meta-analysis of school-based social skills interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders. Remedial and Special Education, 28, 153-162. doi: 10.1177/07419325070280030401

Hall, L.J., Leinert, S., & Jacquez, J. (2018). A review of social skill manuals for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 5, 77-88. doi: 10.1007/s40474-018-0134-5

Stichter, J.P., O’Connor, K.V., Herzog, M.J., Lierheimer, K., & McGhee, S.D. (2012). Social competence intervention for elementary students with aspergers syndrom and high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 354-366. doi: 10.1007/s10803-011-1249-2

Laugeson, E.A., Frankel, F., Gantman, A., Dillon, A.R., & Mogil, C. (2012). Evidence-based social skills training for adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: The UCLA PEERS program. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 1025-1036. doi: 10.1007/s10803-011-1339-1

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast, that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:20.1	I'm your host robert perry
0:21.2	cruz and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts hello rob it's diana and it's me your best friend
0:28.3	jackie hey bestie you claim to be a best friend but but that seems like a very hard skill set to
0:36.7	have how how would you come about and learning all the skills related to being a best friend, but that seems like a very hard skill set to have. How would you come about
0:38.9	and learning all the skills related to being a best friend? You know, it's a hard skill. It's really
0:44.1	complex to be a bestie. And I think that we should turn to some curricula to help us tease apart
0:50.6	what would mean, what it would mean to be a bestie. Thank you for being a friend.
0:56.5	Travel around the road and drive down the road and back again. All right, all right. Before we start
1:01.2	getting into old 80s TV theme songs, I want to remind the listeners they're actually listening to a
1:05.3	podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we pick a topic
1:10.7	in the field and discuss some
1:12.0	research on that topic. And like Jackie was so beautifully hinting this week, we're going to be
1:18.1	talking about social skills, but not just social skills. We're actually going to be delving into
1:23.0	the world of social skills curricula. Ooh. We've certainly done some episodes before where we talked about
1:29.8	specific skill deficits and how behavior analysts have, you know, taught certain skills. We talked
1:35.8	about like college social skills, mostly focusing on teaching skills for individuals with autism.
1:42.0	But we never have talked about a kind of a comprehensive system.
1:46.0	We've talked about comprehensive research, comprehensive methods and procedures, but never a
1:50.2	comprehensive teaching of all the little itty bits of technique that leads to developing
1:57.4	what one would consider the all-encompassing socialization ability of an individual.
2:04.1	For me, I think it seems like not, it doesn't seem as whole or complex, I guess, when you say
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