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TREATMENT OF AUTISM

Center for Autism and Related Disorders
Center for Autism & Related Disorders

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PEERS®

Peers

PEERS® (The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) is an evidence-based, parent-assisted social skills intervention for motivated teens who are interested in learning ways to help make and keep friends. Teens and parents attend concurrent sessions in separate rooms.

Parents are taught how to assist their teen in making and keeping friends, how to help expand their teen’s social network, and how to provide their teen with feedback during weekly socialization homework assignments.


Teens are taught social skills and given the opportunity to practice these social skills during behavior rehearsals and socialization activities.


PEERS® may be appropriate for teens with:

  • High Functioning Autism
  • Asperger’s Disorder
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorder
  • ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Other social and behavioral problems

PEERS® Teens learn how to:

  • Use appropriate conversational skills
  • Find common interests by trading information
  • Choose appropriate friends
  • Appropriately use humor
  • Enter and exit conversations between peers
  • Handle rejection, teasing, and bullying
  • Handle rumors and gossip
  • Be a good host during get-togethers
  • To make phone calls to friends
  • Be a good sport
  • Handle arguments and disagreements with people
  • Change a bad reputation
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PEERS® program qualifications:

  • Teen must be in middle school or high school.
  • Teen must have difficulty making and keeping friends.
  • Teen must agree to participate in the program voluntarily.
  • Parent must be willing and able to participate in weekly sessions.
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