ABA 751 - Research in Social Skills Training

In this course students will critique various research-based social skill interventions that can be implemented with individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Throughout the course students will analyze the various procedures that can be implemented (e.g., video modeling, script fading, the teaching interaction procedure) as well as the empirical basis for these procedures. The course will review different strategies for the evaluation these procedures in empirical investigations. Finally, students of the course will critique several of the procedures that are being implemented today which have no empirical evidence to their effectiveness.

(Cr: 3)