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Amanda E. Gillooly; Deborah M. Riby; Kevin Durkin; Sinéad M. Rhodes – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Although children with Williams syndrome (WS) are strongly socially motivated, many have friendship difficulties. The parents of 21 children with WS and 20 of the children themselves participated in a semi-structured interview about the children's friendships. Parents reported that their child had difficulties sustaining friendships and low levels…
Descriptors: Friendship, Children, Congenital Impairments, Interpersonal Competence
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Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal; Manuel Perea; Alba Moreno-Giménez; Ladislao Salmerón; Julia Andreu; Diana Pons; Máximo Vento; Ana García-Blanco – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
A core feature of Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) is the presence of difficulties in social interactions. This can be explained by an atypical attentional processing of social information: individuals with ASC may show problems with orienting attention to socially relevant stimuli and/or inhibiting their attentional responses to irrelevant ones.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Laura Maria Fatta; Elizabeth A. Laugeson; Dora Bianchi; Italian Peers® team support group; Fiorenzo Laghi; Maria Luisa Scattoni – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The "Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills" (PEERS®) is an intervention targeting social skills for autistic adolescents and those with other social challenges. The efficacy of the PEERS® on adolescents has been extensively explored but the program has not been validated in Italy. In the present study, we adapted…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Carly S. Albaum; Teresa Sellitto; Nisha Vashi; Yvonne Bohr; Jonathan A. Weiss – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: Active engagement in one's therapy is a key contributor to successful outcomes. Research on child engagement in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has largely focused on youth without autism. This longitudinal study examined multiple indicators of child engagement in relation to outcomes for autistic children who took part in CBT for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Outcomes of Treatment