An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study
© The Author(s) 2015. High-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders display social skill deficits that can have a debilitating impact on their daily lives. The Secret Agent Society (SAS) program has been shown to be effective in improving the social skills of these children when delivered...
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2015
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| author | Tan, Y. Mazzucchelli, Trevor Beaumont, R. |
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| description | © The Author(s) 2015. High-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders display social skill deficits that can have a debilitating impact on their daily lives. The Secret Agent Society (SAS) program has been shown to be effective in improving the social skills of these children when delivered in a group setting. This pilot study evaluated whether individually delivered SAS would yield similar outcomes. Three participants were recruited for the 9-week intervention. Measures of social competence were administered at four points: pretest 1, pretest 2, post-intervention, and 6-week follow-up. Participants showed significant improvement in half of the measures assessing social competence. On a third of these measures, two participants demonstrated improvements to within the range of their typically developing peers. Follow-up results suggested that improvements were maintained at 6 weeks' post-intervention. Limitations of this study and directions for future research are discussed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-325732017-09-13T15:22:41Z An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study Tan, Y. Mazzucchelli, Trevor Beaumont, R. © The Author(s) 2015. High-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders display social skill deficits that can have a debilitating impact on their daily lives. The Secret Agent Society (SAS) program has been shown to be effective in improving the social skills of these children when delivered in a group setting. This pilot study evaluated whether individually delivered SAS would yield similar outcomes. Three participants were recruited for the 9-week intervention. Measures of social competence were administered at four points: pretest 1, pretest 2, post-intervention, and 6-week follow-up. Participants showed significant improvement in half of the measures assessing social competence. On a third of these measures, two participants demonstrated improvements to within the range of their typically developing peers. Follow-up results suggested that improvements were maintained at 6 weeks' post-intervention. Limitations of this study and directions for future research are discussed. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32573 10.1017/bec.2015.7 Cambridge University Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tan, Y. Mazzucchelli, Trevor Beaumont, R. An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title | An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title_full | An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title_fullStr | An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title_short | An evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study |
| title_sort | evaluation of individually delivered secret agent society social skills program for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: a pilot study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32573 |