Summer Treatment Program
The Summer Treatment Program (STP) is a social skills group for children on the autism spectrum that meets during a summer camp run by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The STP aims to improve the children’s social behaviors (e.g., interactions with peers, social skills, problem solving skills), interactions with adults (e.g., compliance to requests), and self-efficacy (e.g., competence in sports skills).
Areas of functional impairment, defined as problems in daily life functioning that result from symptoms and skill deficits, are identified for each child and explicitly targeted in treatment through a social learning theoretical approach that includes age appropriate, evidence-based operant and cognitive behavioural treatments.
The STP was originally developed by Pelham and Fabiano for children with ADHD.
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