Social Skill Interventions

Abstract

Social skill intervention strategies have been created from a number of conceptual frameworks, including applied behavior analysis, cognitive behavioral, and social learning theory. Research on social skill interventions have demonstrated that there is strong evidence for the efficacy of specific social skill interventions for youth on the autism spectrum. Social skill interventions are important to the successful outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum, who are inundated with increased social demands throughout their development, and the need for such interventions is amplified by few children receiving social skill interventions as part of their early intervention programming.