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social skills training and pervasive developmental disorders  

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  • Impairment in social interaction has been identified as a core deficit in individuals with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). Research has shown that compared with typically developing peers, children with PDD spend less time interacting with or in proximity to peers, spend less time in social play and more time in nonsocial play, spend more time in “purposeless” activities, receive fewer social initiations from other children, are less likely to respond to social initiations from peers, and are less likely to initiate social interactions with peers (McConnell, 2002). [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Social Skills Training and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)]

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