Man, as a social being, needs a behavioral repertoire that guides his relations in society. This varied set of behaviors is called social skills, and can be learned throughout the life cycle. People with neurodevelopmental disorder have a deficit in social relationships as a prominent symptom, requiring reinforcing spaces that enable the construction of a socially skilled behavioral repertoire. Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has aroused the interest of several areas, however, the focus of studies remains in childhood. This study aimed to investigate possibilities of intervention with adults diagnosed with ASD, as a tool for social skills training (SST), a systematic attempt to teach strategies and interpersonal skills in order to improve the quality of the interactions that permeate interpersonal relationships. The methodology was based on a systematic review in the Virtual Health Library, by using the uni-terms “social skills”, “adults”, “autism”. Included were productions available in full, which presented interventions with adults with ASD and the development of social skills. The studies resulting from this selection were fully analyzed. The results discuss the effectiveness of interventions with this population for the development of social skills. It is concluded that SST is a possibility of effective intervention with atypical adults.

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly present deficits in several repertoires, including play behavior. In the literature of Applied Behavior Analysis, there were studies, which investigated the effects of use of photographic activity schedule, with pictures portraying actions with toys, and other type of cues on the establishment of independent performance in children with ASD. Responding under the control of pictures was demonstrated through different levels of cues, such as verbal instructions and modeling. However, previous research did not isolate the effects of the cues. The current study had the goal of comparing the effects of two cues, verbal instruction and modeling, in two 10-year old children with ASD, and through an alternating treatments design, as to the establishment of actions with toys in the presence of pictures representing them. The interventions were effective to the development of independent performance in both children. In the case of one of them, differences were more evident, since the modeling cue was more efficient. For the other child, there were no differences in efficiency, considering the two cues. Stimulus control probes with different sequences of pictures presented, suggested the establishment of responding under the control of the pictures.