Project Description:
Ongoing evaluation of a social skills and self-care program for girls with ASD or DD. It will also contribute to previous goals, such as stablishing long term community partner relationships that collaborate through donations or service time working with girls in the group, establishing networks within local school districts for volunteer peers, and increasing capacity of social skills intervention within the school community by providing training and mentorship to school professionals, and establish a GNO peer advisory board. Each of these goals promotes the sustainability of the GNO program or other social skills programs in our community. The evaluation component will also contribute to refining the manual for publication.
Girls Night Out (GNO) is an intervention aimed at improving social communication, specifically conversational skills, and self-care skills in an understudied population: adolescent girls with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The program targets areas often impaired in individuals with ASD: social skills related to conversations and self-care, related to appearance and hygiene. Program components include skills groups, community events, training, and direct service.
Keyword(s):
social skills, research, adolescents, girls with autism, self care
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information, Continuing Education/Community Training
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention, Recreation-Related Activities, Quality of Life
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Specific Groups, Other
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Mulit-County, State, Regional, National
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
