Expérience d’un groupe d’habiletés sociales : une année de pratique avec trois adolescents porteurs du syndrome d’Asperger

Abstract

Though individuals with Asperger's syndrome may develop academic skills, their cognitive particularities often affect their adaptative behaviors. As adolescents, the deficits in communication observed in infancy are generally improved, but difficulties persist in interactions with pairs and in the domain of autonomy. This article illustrates the experience of a social skills training group including three adolescents with Asperger's syndrome. The training went from formal comprehension of interactions to concrete situations in order to increase the autonomy of the adolescents with Asperger's syndrome.