Social Skills Training for Individuals with Autism that Works from the PEERS Program May 11, 2015 The UCLA PEERS Clinic (The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) is an ...

Schools are adding social skills to their core curriculum for students for very practical reasons—if kids with high-functioning autism have the tools to be successful in the public-school system ...

For people on the autism spectrum, having a social life can be challenging. According to VeryWell Health, some people lack the necessary social skills, like making eye contact or responding to ...

Researchers at the University of Denver are investigating whether robots can help autistic children have more meaningful human interactions by improving certain social skills.

Treatment with the hormone oxytocin improves social skills in some children with autism, suggest results from a small clinical trial. The results appeared today in the Proceedings of the National ...

PLAYING with dolls could help the social development of children — including those with autism, a study shows.Children with autism traits showed inc ...

Standard behavioral therapy, including applied behavioral analysis (ABA), aims to help kids with autism build social skills. But therapists are in short supply, and families can be on waitlists ...

THE first clinical trial aimed at boosting social skills in people with autism using magnetic brain stimulation has been completed – and the results are encouraging. “As a first clinical trial ...

A NEW smartphone application that has been found to increase the social skills of at least 79 per cent of children with autism has been released publicly for the first time.

Developing social skills in children with autism is challenging and an evolving process as the child grows older. Here are tips by expert How to improve social skills in children with autism ...