Glossary

Side effects are any effect of a drug, chemical, or other intervention that is in addition to its intended effect, especially an effect that is harmful or unpleasant.

Sight-based interventions are any treatments and therapies which use sight as an intervention technique or which are designed to help someone improve their sight and visual processing skills.

Sign languages use hand shape, position, and movement; body movements; gestures; facial expressions; and other visual cues to form words.

Sign supported English is a sign language which takes the signs from another British sign language and uses them in the order that the words would be spoken in spoken English.

Simulation training refers to any kind of training which involves imitating a real-life process in order to provide a lifelike experience.

Simultaneous communication is another term for total communication.

Many people with autism and their carers, suffer from sleep problems such as insomnia.

Sleeping pills is another term for anxiolytics, a class of drugs used to treat feelings of anxiety or nervousness caused by stress or psychological problems. They are also used for sleeplessness and other problems.

Smith Magenis syndrome is a genetic condition where common characteristics include some degree of self-injury, sleep, disturbance, developmental delay, short stature, decreased sensitivity to pain, hyperactivity and destructive or aggressive behaviour.

SOC-RS is an acronym for the Social Orienting Continuum and Response Scale, a tool which measures social orienting behaviours.

The Social ABCs is a combined, multi-component, parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with confirmed or suspected autism.

Social Adjustment Enhancement Intervention is a type of social skills training group.

Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is a persistent fear about social situations and being around people.

Social care services are designed for assessing the needs of, and providing support to people on the autism spectrum in the community.

The Social Cognition and Interaction Training-Autism programme is a version of the Social Cognition and Interaction Training  programme that has been adapted for use by people on the autism spectrum.

The Social Cognition Training Program is a group-based intervention designed to improve social cognition and social functioning among people with disabilities.

A social communication intervention is any intervention designed to improve the social communication skills of people on the autism spectrum.

The Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) (formerly called the Autism Screening Questionnaire) is a screening tool designed to identify children who may be on the autism spectrum.

The Social Competence Intervention uses cognitive behavioural principles with a social skills group to improve theory of mind, emotion recognition and executive functioning in individuals with autism.

The Social Competence Intervention for Parents (SCI-P), a parent education program developed as a supplement to the Social Competence Intervention for Adolescents (SCI-A) with autism.