Glossary

The Social Competence Intervention Program is a programme developed from creative drama activities

The Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children and Adolescents is a behavioural therapy programme is designed to help children and adolescents decrease their social anxiety, increase their interpersonal skills, and expand their range of enjoyable social activities.

Social Emotional NeuroScience Endocrinology Theatre, more usually known as SENSE Theatre, is a theatre-based intervention which aims to improve social interaction in young people on the autism spectrum.

The Social Orienting Continuum and Response Scale is a tool which measures social orienting behaviours.

Impaired social skills such as lack of eye contact are one of the core symptoms of autism.

The Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) is an assessment tool that focuses on social behaviour in pre-school, elementary, and secondary students.

Social stories are a type of prompt or script used to help individuals on the autism spectrum understand and behave appropriately in certain situations.

Social support refers to the various types of support (assistance or help) that people receive from others.

Sodium dimercaptopropanesulfonate is another term for DMPS, a synthetic chemical used as a chelating agent to remove heavy metals, such as mercury, from the body.

Sodium thiomalate is a medication which contains gold salts and is used to treat inflammatory conditions such as arthritis.

Sodium valproate is a type of anticonvulsant, a group of drugs designed to prevent or reduce the severity of seizures.

Solian is a brand name for amisulpride, a type of atypical antipsychotic drug used to treat a variety of mental health problems including schizophrenia and psychosis.

The Son-Rise programme  (sometimes known as the Options Method) is a type of relationship-based intervention. It is used to help children on the autism spectrum and children with other disabilities.

The SOSTA-FRA programme is a structured cognitive-behavioural therapeutic and group-based social skills training for children and adolescents on the autism spectrum.

The SOTSEC-ID programme aims to support therapists to run cognitive-behavioural treatment groups for men with learning disabilities who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviour.

Space Place is a pack which includes a DVD animation series, a pack of 'emotion' cards and a CD-Rom computer game based on the animation series.

The specific carbohydrate diet is a very strict, complex and restrictive diet which excludes complex carbohydrates, such as those found in rice and potatoes.

Speech and language pathology is another term for speech and language therapy, an intervention in which a therapist works with individuals to help them develop their communication skills using a range of techniques.

Speech and language therapy is an itervention in which a therapist works with individuals to help them develop their communication skills using a range of techniques.

Speech Repetition Therapy (SRT) involves imitation and repetition of spoken (not intoned) stimuli, produced at a normal speech rate.