What is it about?

Social deficits are prominent among people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, yet targeted social training is scarce. In this paper, we report how we adapted a training of 15 weekly sessions developed in Hong Kong and its effectiveness.

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Why is it important?

Apart from ratings from their carers, we add evaluation from the participants themselves, which is a novel evaluation strategy. Carers observed reduced negative social behaviours in the participants. Participants also reported knowledge gain and confidence in applying content learnt. Community-based social training for people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability is feasible and potentially effective.

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We hope the article could open up a possibility of training people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability in the community in Hong Kong. We also hope our paper would provide insights on how psychological therapies or training could be adapted for people with intellectual disabilities, which often receive less attention in outcome research.

Raymond Won Shing Chan
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

I hope this article could highlight the importance of social training as a centrality intervention approach for persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It is a great pleasure to collaborate with my colleagues in writing this article.

Cecilia Nga Wing Leung
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

Social skill training is essential to community inclusion. We hope the article could make people know more about the value of social training for people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, and see their possibility of change and highly engagement in the training. It is an incredible experience for me to render training and get along with them!

Brenda Tsang
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

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This page is a summary of: A feasibility study on social competence intervention for Chinese adolescents and adults with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, April 2022, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jar.12998.
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