Peer Play Interventions To Support the Social Competence of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 032-046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo-Anne Prendeville ◽  
Patricia A Prelock ◽  
Gregory Unwin
Author(s):  
Víctor del Toro Alonso ◽  
Mónica Jiménez-Astudillo ◽  
Pilar Gutiez-Cuevas

Play is an ideal tool for enhancing the development of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is important to know their possibilities and to develop play activities that permit the special educational needs of these children to be addressed in an adequate way. Therefore, a case study is presented with two children and a two-year follow-up period during which the authors observe which aspects the development has evolved and if it is possible to increase the sense of the activity in these children using play as an educational response. The results are accompanied by an in-depth interview with the teachers of the students over the two-year period. An improvement in areas of development is evidenced in the social, communicative, symbolic, and anticipation and flexibilization dimensions during the two years immersed in a play methodology, supported by the structuring of routines and task spaces. Also, an evolution of the sense of the activity and the development of functional play is observed.


2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1550-1561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Boyd ◽  
Maureen A. Conroy ◽  
G. Richmond Mancil ◽  
Taketo Nakao ◽  
Peter J. Alter

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramona E. Simut ◽  
Johan Vanderfaeillie ◽  
Andreea Peca ◽  
Greet Van de Perre ◽  
Bram Vanderborght

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