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Individuals with Asperger Disorder have high cognitive and linguistic abilities; however, despite their social motivation, they remain socially vulnerable due to their challenges acquiring appropriate social skills. At times, their circumscribed interests can interfere with social conversations as these individuals have difficulty time restricting their explanations to appropriate amounts of detail which over time can lead to deleterious effects such as peer isolation. To target this deficit, a multiple baseline design was implemented across participants to examine children with Asperger Disorder could learn to limit their extraneous conversational detail and improve organization through the use of treatment package consisting of a visual conversational framework combined with self-management. Combination of a visual cue and self management was chosen as the intervention as self-management has been shown to increase independence and individuals with Asperger Disorder have a relative strength in processing visual information. The study showed positive results by improving the ability to appropriately limit extraneous details, increase organization of thoughts, and generalized to new conversational partners.
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