EDPS 49100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Skills
17 Apr 2018
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Social peer network: focus child and 2 peers social communication skills. Adult defines steps of social skill and introduces text and picture cues. Peers practice skill with focus child, including prompting. Adult provides prompts, feedback and reinforcement during game or activity. Prompt once every 30 sec and as opportunities allow (turns) Teach peers to be prompters - and to wait. Adult assists on third prompt if peer unsuccessful. Peer networks: a social intervention that is evidence-based. Small group of peers serving in a defined role: assistance, support, tutors, reinforcing agents. Peers receive training and give input to the goals and activities. National research council (2001)- peer-mediated interventions are an empirically supported communication intervention. National standards project (2009)- peer training package one of. Recess is a context for learning and implementing social skills. Students with asd miss out on the social benefits. Typically does not include direct instruction or organization. Use of perseverative interests of children (baker, koegel, &
