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

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

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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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