Effect Of Peer Intervention Method On The Peer Communication Ability Of Autistic Children In Regular Classes

In recent years,the prevalence of autism has increased rapidly.It’s a big challenge of education because of the increasing number of autistic children.It is the social handicap that becoming he core features of autistic children.To do a research on improving the social communication ability of autistic children is becoming a very important issue.As some studies have shown,Peer-Medieted Intervention could improve social interaction behavior effectively.Compared with adults as interventionists,peer interventionists have a much better generalization effect and could significantly improve the social interaction skills of autism children.With the development of integrated education,more and more children with autism have been integrated into the normal education environment.However,if they are placed in the integrated environment without any intervention measures,it may not only make the teachers surprised but also cause many problems in the children’s behavior.The idea of placing them into the regular classes is to increase their chances of the communication with normal children.In fact,due to the lack of social skills as their contemporary do,autistic children have poor communication status with their contemporaries,and it is difficult to establish close friendship with their friends,which directly affects the quality of integrated education.In ordinary school life,autistic children spend more time with their friends and classmates,so choosing the partners who have more opportunities to contact with autistic children becomes the media for teaching social skills.The purpose of this thesis is to improve the social communication ability of autistic children by using peer intervention method,to find out the effect of peer intervention method on the communication ability of autistic children,and can also provide reference for teachers and parents in the regular class.A child with mild autistic was selected as the research object,and the cross-line multi-baseline design was used in the experimental design of single subjects.At the end of the experiment,visual analysis and C statistics were used to analyze the data,and the following conclusions were concluded: peer intervention had good effect on the three target behaviors of children with mild autism in other aspects of social skills had also been improved.Based on the above conclusions,the researchers put forward the following suggestions for the related personnel and research of autistic children :1.Autism related personnel early detection of autistic children’s special educational needs in different social interaction,create corresponding communication situations,with the help of peers,such as in school with the help of classmates and at home with the help of brothers and sisters to promote autistic children to communicate with them.Targeted intervention on social interaction of autistic children.2.Researchers should adjust the program in a timely and flexible manner according to the special performance of autistic children.Peer intervention can be applied to other special children,and the peers who train them can be extended to siblings or others.