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Teaching Adaptive and Social Skills to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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The purpose of this chapter is to review intervention strategies that have been researched for teaching adaptive and social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We hope that the chapter will be useful for practitioners and that it will also stimulate further research. Before beginning our review, we briefly describe ASDs (a more thorough discussion of the characteristics of ASDs can be found in Chapter 1 of this volume).

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    Kerri Walters & C.T. Yu

  3. Department of Psychology, Rm. 129, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Thomson, K., Walters, K., Martin, G.L., Yu, C. (2011). Teaching Adaptive and Social Skills to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In: Matson, J., Sturmey, P. (eds) International Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8065-6_21

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