CEU Event: Establishing Social Awareness in Children with ASD with BCBA-D, Dr. Alan Schnee

While the literature is replete with considerations for developing social skills (Gates, Kang, & Lerner, 2017), little attention is given to the formation of social awareness.

Social awareness as a critical domain in early intervention for children with autism is concerned with establishing the relevance of others so that children regard their comings and goings, doings, gestures, attention (gaze, point), location, mistakes, and perspective.

There are a variety of platforms and strategies that can be employed to fortify social awareness so that children act and learn in relation to us; to enhance learning as a function of increased engagement.