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Long Term Treatment Outcomes for Parent-Assisted Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The UCLA PEERS Program

Center:

CA-Tarjan Center UCLA, UCEDD

Fiscal Year:

2015

Contact Information:

Elizabeth Laugeson
[email protected]
310-267-3370

Product Description:

Social deﬁcits are a hallmark characteristic among adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), yet few evidence-based interventions exist aimed at improving social skills for this pop-ulation, and none have examined the maintenance of treat-ment gains years after the intervention has ended. This study examines the durability of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS), a manualized, parent-assisted social skills intervention for high-functioning adolescentswith ASD. Targeted skills related to the development and mainte-nance of friendships were assessed 15 years following treatment for 53 adolescent participants and their parents. Results indi-cate that adolescents receiving PEERS maintained treatment gains at long-term follow-up on standardized measures of social functioning including the Social Skills Rating System and the Social Responsiveness Scale as well as in frequency of peer interactions and social skills knowledge.

Keyword(s):

Social skills, Autism, Asperger's disorder, PEERS, Long term outcomes

Product/Publication Type(s):

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families

Alternative Format:

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

[email protected]

COVID-19 Related Data:

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