“…This approach involves teaching children four social communication skills (i.e., initiating, responding, name use, turn taking), providing an advanced play organizer (e.g., teaching target vocabulary words, assigning children play roles, reading the storybook, play planning), structuring play sessions within a dramatic theme, and engaging children in a brief review session to review their performance. Over the past four years, we have conducted a series of single-case intervention studies involving a total of 46 children attending high-poverty preschools to evaluate the efficacy of this shared-storybook reading on children's positive peer interactions and verbal play (e.g., Stanton-Chapman, Kaiser, Vijay, & Chapman, 2008;Stanton-Chapman, Kaiser, & Wolery, 2006;Stanton-Chapman & Snell, In Press). Although this intervention has produced immediate and pronounced social-related improvements for the majority of participating children, some participants' gains were delayed.…”