This critical review examines the effectiveness of peer-mediated video-modeling (VM) as a social skills intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Study designs include single-subject multiple baseline, single subject AB and a case control study. Results of the studies reviewed provide suggestive evidence for the use of peermediated VM to increase, generalize and maintain so...

Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2005, pages 33–46 Abstract: Children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) typically exhibit a lack of social reciprocity skills. They often struggle to maintain conversations, especially with topics of little or no interest to them, and to create meaningful relationships. By giving compliments to others, children with ASD have a means by which to show...

This presentation displays information about effective teacher-student conferencing to improve elementary students’ independent reading comprehension. highlights Jennifer Serravallo’s Research-Compliment-Teach (RCT) model. One of the most critical components any strategy is goal setting. Goal setting helps provide individualized, meaningful motivation and feedback students as they develop reade...

Compliment has been regarded by many as an expression to show one’s fondness and good wishes, and it is defined in the dictionary as “an expression of praise, admiration, or congratulation; a formal act of civility, courtesy or respect” (The American Heritage Dictionary, p. 302). Another definition accepted by many scholars is that “a compliment is a speech act which explicitly or implicitly at...

So far blushing has been examined in the context of a negative rather than a positive reinforcement where visual displays of a blush were based on subjective measures. The current study used infrared imaging to measure thermal patterns of the face while with the use of a video camera quantified on the visible spectrum alterations in skin color related to a compliment. To elicit a blush a three-...