Targeting IEP Social Goals for Children with Autism in an Inclusive Summer Camp.

Only four children were studied, so the results cannot show how many children would improve or how large the improvement would be. The children received priming, peer mediation, self-management, and supervised paraprofessional support together, so the contribution of any single component cannot be separated. The study used a concurrent multiple baseline design across participants, so the evidence is limited to these four children and their measured goals. For Blake, the social goal was created during the study because he had no social goals on his IEP. Follow-up was one to three months later, so longer-term maintenance is not known. Paraprofessionals were undergraduate psychology students supervised by graduate students, so results may not transfer to other staff or settings. The measured outcomes were specific targeted behaviors, not broad social competence or academic progress.

Do not read this as proof that any one component caused the improvement. The children received priming, peer mediation, self-management, and supervised paraprofessional support together, and only four children were studied.