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Current interventions commonly aim to improve social skills and communication while addressing multiple areas of deficit rather than focusing on a single concern. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is described as a complex neurological condition that affects children differently, often involving limited communication, poor social interaction, and restricted behaviors and interests.","Interventions in Autism  \nMeagan West  \nAbstract  \nPivotal Response Treatment (PRT) and other therapies for autism have been developing and changing in recent years, and have moved away from clinical settings to options that can be used in the classroom and at home. Common current therapies focus on improving social skills and increasing communication. The therapies and treatments that are available for children with autism spectrum disorders are as varied as the children whom they support. As PRT and other therapy plans evolve, parents and clinicians develop higher expectations that children with autism will develop lost skills.  \nAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) was first diagnosed in 1943 to describe children with the most profound social withdrawal (Autism Ontario, 2011), although it is now known as “a complex neurological disorder that affects the function of the brain” (Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth, 2005, p. 3) and affects each diagnosed child differently. Children diagnosed with autism exhibit limited communication abilities, poor social interaction, and restricted behaviour patterns and interests (Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth, 2005) . Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) and other therapies for autism have been developing and changing in recent years, and have moved away from clinical settings to options that can be used in the classroom and at home. Therapies currently focus on improving social skills and increasing communication. These therapies often focus on improving multiple areas of deficit that an autistic child may struggle with, instead of working on a single area of concern.  \nInterventions Focused on Social Skills  \nSocial skills are important for all children to learn how to get along with others in their daily lives. This skill is especially important to children diagnosed with autism, because many autistic children struggle to read facial cues (Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth, 2005) and have compromised peer relations (Autism Ontario, 2011) . Children are constantly learning how to behave in different social situations and “early social engagement is crucial   [for] typical child development” (Sroufe, 2005, as cited in Kroegel, 2014, p. 69) . Inclusion of students with special needs into classrooms with their typically developing peers has enabled autistic students to interact with children their own age in everyday situations. As the following evidence suggests, this change in setting will not result in great change in the social skill abilities of autistic children, because in-depth therapies are needed to accompany the change in educational settings.  \nStudies have shown that autistic children “who are in mainstream classrooms have increase in the complexity of their play and decrease in the non-social activity, when compared to how they behave in special education settings”(Mandelberg, Frankel, Cunningham, Gorospe,& Laugeson 2014, p. 255), and this increase in play and social time seems to insinuate that these children would be happier at school. This would be a dangerous assumption to make, because it has been found that autistic children continue to “feel lonelier and have poorer quality friendships”(Mandelberg et al. , 2014, p. 255) than their non-autistic peers. Therefore, children with autism can not simply be put into a mainstream environment and be expected to make gains in attaining meaningful friendships.  \nAs children with autism join mainstream classrooms and inclusion becomes the norm, many students are supported by educational assistants. An educational assistant’s role is to support the child throughout the school day in academic and social situations, yet recent research suggests that educational assistants “may unintentionally negatively affect the social  \ndevelopment of the children they support by either hovering   or remaining [too] uninvolved”(Klein Feldman & Matos, 2012, p. 169) . 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