Building Sustainability of a Social Skills and Self Care Program for Adolescent Girls with ASD

Investigator: Jamison, Rene

Institution: Center For Child Health And Development-University Of Kansas Medical Center

Grant Amount: $24,514.00

Award Type: Community Grants

City: Kansas City

State: KS

Country: United States

Year: 2011

Website: http://www.kumc.edu/cchd/

Description Girls Night Out (GNO) is a social skills and self care program for adolescent girls with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Proposal aims are twofold, 1) to build sustainability of a specific intervention program (Girls Night Out) to improve social competence and self care skills in an understudied population: adolescent girls with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 2) to increase capacity of professionals implementing social skills programs within school communities. GNO is peer mediated with peer training on ASD, strategies for eliciting and reinforcing appropriate social responses, and guidelines for serving as a peer.