PEERS® Part 1: An overview of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills

Aarti Nair, Ph.D.

This webinar will provide an overview of the social deficits and consequences of peer rejection in autism spectrum disorder, and a discsussion of the limitations of existing social skills programs. The webinar will discuss effective methods of social skills instruction and provide an overview of the PEERS® curriculum and research findings. Creating a PEERS program for an indivdiual with autism or other developmental or social need could be considered a targeted, NeMTSS Tier 2 support. For more information on NeMTSS visit https://nemtss.unl.edu/about/.

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