this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of educational program, which is based on seven educational principles of the prophet mohammad, on the social skills of 5 to 6 year old children. the present study was semi experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. the study population consisted of all families with 5 to 6 year old children in the 1500 household are of koshtargah in shah...

Children with autism spectrum disorder suffer from a deficit that prevents them from observing, interpreting, and learning social cues. Clinical studies in social skills training have proposed methods, such as exaggeration, to enhance autism intervention strategies. Socially assistive robotics is an area of human-robot interaction that has the potential to improve social activity. Inspired by s...

Disturbances in sustained attention commonly interfere with the ability of persons with schizophrenia to benefit from evidence-based psychosocial treatments. Cognitive remediation interventions have thus far demonstrated minimal effects on attention, as have medications. There is thus a gap between the existence of effective psychosocial treatments and patients' ability to effectively engage in...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of psychiatric comorbidity on social skill treatment outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). METHODS A community sample of 83 children (74 males, 9 females) with an ASD (mean age = 9.5 yr; SD = 1.2) and common comorbid disorders participated in 10-week social skills training groups. The first 5 weeks of the group focused on conversation s...

objective: school-based interventions (such as life skills training) have become the mainstay for prevention of some behavioral problems. this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a social skills training program on a group of students who were in the first grade of high school in an urban area of tehran, iran. method: in a before-after study, a kind of social skill education program...