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Will You Be My Friend?
Social Interaction for Children With Autism By Emily Gorovsky
In Reaching Out, Joining In: Teaching Social Skills to Young Children With Autism (Woodbine House, 2001), Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA, and Sandra L. Harris, Ph.D., discuss methods of teaching social skills using applied behavior analysis (ABA). They describe ABA as "a special set of teaching tools that are especially helpful in helping children with autism learn."
Motivating behavior is one category of teaching methods Weiss and Harris discuss and include