A Randomized Controlled Study of Parent-assisted Children's Friendship Training with Children having Autism Spectrum Disorders
A Randomized Controlled Study of Parent-assisted Children's Friendship Training with Children having Autism Spectrum Disorders
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DOI:
10.1007/s10803-009-0932-z
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发表时间:
2010-07-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Laugeson, Elizabeth
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作者:
Frankel, Fred;Myatt, Robert;Laugeson, Elizabeth
This study evaluated Children's Friendship Training (CFT), a manualized parent-assisted intervention to improve social skills among second to fifth grade children with autism spectrum disorders. Comparison was made with a delayed treatment control group (DTC). Targeted skills included conversational skills, peer entry skills, developing friendship networks, good sportsmanship, good host behavior during play dates, and handling teasing. At post-testing, the CFT group was superior to the DTC group on parent measures of social skill and play date behavior, and child measures of popularity and loneliness, At 3-month follow-up, parent measures showed significant improvement from baseline. Post-hoc analysis indicated more than 87% of children receiving CFT showed reliable change on at least one measure at post-test and 66.7% after 3 months follow-up.