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Titre : | Near-Peer Facilitation of a Soft Skills Program for Young Adults With Autism (2022) |
Auteurs : | Annemarie Connor ; Sarah E. Fabrizi ; Amy Nasamran ; Connie Sung |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of occupational therapy (Vol. 76, n° 4, Juillet-Août 2022) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1-6 |
Note générale : | 10.5014/ajot.2022.048207 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Descripteurs : |
HE Vinci Compétence ; Emploi ; Ergothérapeutes ; Ergothérapie ; Étudiants ; Travail (emploi) ; Trouble du spectre autistique (TSA) |
Résumé : | Importance: Young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience poor employment outcomes. Teaching soft skills and using peer-based interventions improve outcomes for people with ASD. Objective: To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of a soft skills intervention and the feasibility of delivery to a group of young adults with ASD by near-peer occupational therapy master's-level students. Design: Pretestposttest single-group design. Setting: College campus. Participants: Convenience sample of 14 young adults (M age = 21.57 yr) with ASD. Intervention: The Assistive Soft Skills and Employment Training (ASSET) program is a 12-session, manualized, soft skills group intervention previously validated with the ASD population. Topics include communication, attitude and enthusiasm, teamwork, networking, professionalism, and stress management. Outcomes and Measures: Social functioning, self-efficacy, and adaptive behavior were measured preintervention and immediately postintervention using standardized self-report rating scales. Participant satisfaction and experience were assessed using program-specific measures. Results: Participants made statistically significant improvements, with medium to large effect sizes in social functioning, self-efficacy, and adaptive behavior. They reported high levels of satisfaction and a positive experience with the program content and delivery. Conclusions and Relevance: This study provides evidence of participant satisfaction and perceived soft skills improvement and confidence, in addition to the preliminary efficacy of master's-level students as near-peer facilitators of the ASSET program with an ASD population. What This Article Adds: The results suggest that trained and supervised master's-level students can effectively deliver a manualized intervention as near-peer facilitators, elicit positive feedback and high levels of participant satisfaction, and replicate and extend previously reported participant gains. This study provides evidence of soft skills improvement and confidence in delivering a manualized intervention by occupational therapy master's-level students (OTS) as near-peer facilitators of the Assistive Soft Skills & Employment Training (ASSET) program with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) population. |
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