Autism In Teens - Teaching Social Skills Pays Off

In 2006, the UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) clinic was established in order to help high functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) improve their social skills to fit in better with their peers at school.
High functioning adolescents with ASD are considered healthy enough to be "mainstreamed" in school.
Although PEERS was shown to be effective in earlier studies, researchers were still unsure as to whether the new skills "stuck" with

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