Evaluating the quality of peer interactions in children and adolescents with autism with the Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale (PIPPS)

Abstract Background A core difficulty for individuals with autism is making friends and successfully engaging and interacting with peers. The majority of measures to assess peer interactions are observations in a school setting or self-report. The present study examined the convergent validity of us...

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Main Authors: Rebecca M. Jones, Andrew Pickles, Catherine Lord
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:Molecular Autism
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13229-017-0144-x