Antecedent Social Skills Interventions for Individuals With ASD: What Works, for Whom, and Under What Conditions?

Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities

Ledford, J. R., King, S., et al. (2018).

Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities, 33(1), 3-13.

This review investigates antecedent social skills interventions in individuals on the autism spectrum.

Institute of Education Sciences



Between 1994 and 2014

Single-subject research design

263 studies in 113 articles

Results indicated the following social skills interventions to have the highest success rates in individuals on the autism spectrum: <ul> <li>prompting (alone and in combination with another treatment approach);</li> <li>environmental arrangements; and&nbsp;</li> <li>social skills training.</li> </ul>