title: Teaching functional community skills to autistic children using nonhandicapped peer tutors.
abstract: In this study, two autistic children were paired with normal peers who, after pretraining sessions, taught community skills to the autistic children. Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring. Results demonstrated that no identified skills were acquired during the baseline and modeling conditions. However, direct instruction of each child by a peer tutor resulted in the learning and maintenance of functional community skills.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012917:Social Adjustment