Mitchell Taubman, Ron Leaf, and John McEachin: Crafting Connections: Contemporary Applied Behavior Analysis for Enriching the Social Lives of Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Taubman, Leaf, and McEachin (2011) have written a practical guide to teaching social skills to individuals on the autism spectrum. Unlike many other books on the topic, Crafting Connections, is empirically based, i.e., based upon research rather than practice wisdom. Also, unlike many books that attempt to teach social skills to individuals on the autism spectrum, the techniques and topics contained in Crafting Connections, are not geared solely toward children on the autism spectrum. The techniques can be used with teens and young adults with ASDs as well. …