Analysis and Synthesis of Relevant Research

Author(s)
& year
Title of article Primary purpose(s)/
objective(s)
Participant(s) Method(s) Results Conclusions/
Discussion
Carla A.
DiSalvo
&
Donald
P.
Oswald,
2002
Peer-Mediated
Interventions
to Increase the
Social Interaction
of Children with
Autism:
Consideration of
Peer Expectancies
The article is primarily focused
towards researching on the
peer-related strategies towards
improving the social
functioning of the children.
85 children
diagnosed with the
autistic disorder
or the pervasive
developmental
disorder and within 5
to 13 years.
Integrated play groups,
peer
buddy as well as peer
tutoring approaches,
along with
group-oriented
contingencies.
An important difficulty
towards producing stable
as well as substantial
improvements with the
socialization interventions
for the children have
autism is
that generally the
interventions could only
address the small facet of
the entire problem, which
thereby leads towards
negligible changes in the
amount or the quality of
this social interaction.
The behavior on an
individual is often affected
mainly by the expectations
that the peers bring towards
the situation. Therefore, it is
highly essential that the
future studies on various...