Does Friendship Matter for Children with Autism Spectrum.Disorder? Peer-mediated Intervention toiPromote Social Competence: Review and Recommendation

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10.2991/ahsr.k.211130.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Peer-mediated Intervention; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Social Competence; Friendship

Abstract

As children move forward to adulthood, social competence is paramount in developing and maintaning friendships. Social interaction and social pragmatics are particularly problematic for childrennwith autism spectrummdisorder (ASD) that bring about to limited opportunities to develop meaningful relationship with peers. Peer-mediated Intervention (PMI) engage common peers as social role model to enhance social initiation, responsessand interactions. This paper aim to review the literature related to the social competence and peers intervention of individal with ASD with moderate and low social functioning. The study is a literature review examining types of peer related social intervention that conducted in group settings. All fourrof the review studiesswere administered in school settingsswith result showed increase in social competence such as initiation and social engagement. Involving peers to take the role as social models are encouraging perspective to help supporting social competence in children with ASD.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tamara Wina
AU  - Naomi Soetikno
AU  - Pamela Hendra Heng
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/01
TI  - Does Friendship Matter for Children with Autism Spectrum.Disorder? Peer-mediated Intervention toiPromote Social Competence: Review and Recommendation
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Tarumanagara International Conference on Medicine and Health (TICMIH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 241
EP  - 247
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.211130.041
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.211130.041
ID  - Wina2021
ER  -