A peer-mediated intervention for middle school students with autism spectrum disorder
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at increased risk for social isolation and loneliness. Although students with ASD are spending more time in inclusive settings at school, research has found that simply placing a student with ASD in physical proximity to typically developing peers is not sufficient to promote social gains. This study used a non-concurrent multiple-baseline, multiple-probe across participants design to investigate the effectiveness of a low-intensity, low-cost peer-mediated intervention (PMI) on social behaviours (engagement and communicative acts) for middle-school aged students with ASD during lunch breaks at school. Nine typically developing peers received less than one hour (40-50 minutes) of peer coach training. Following training, peers were encouraged to interact with their classmate with ASD during lunch breaks at school, using the strategies taught during training. Peer coaches were provided with brief feedback after each probe observation during intervention and praise only during follow-up. Results showed a functional relation between the intervention and both engagement and communicative acts, with three demonstrations of effect across participants. There was some maintenance of effect at 1-4 weeks follow-up. Social validity of this intervention was high for both peer coaches and classroom teachers. In addition, mutual enjoyment was observed for the majority of probe observation sessions across groups. This study contributes to and extends the existing PMI research by including participants between the ages of 11-13 with varying intellectual and social-communication abilities and by delivering the intervention in natural, unstructured school settings. It is important to identify evidence-based interventions that have high social validity from the perspective of school administrators, as interventions that are effective, efficient, and cost-effective are most likely to be adopted by schools.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".