Promoting Social Competence with Classical and Contemporary Treatment: Teaching Communication for Children with Autism

Abstract

This article aims to summarize and find out the different outcomes of classical and contemporary treatments in psychology that are designed to improve social competence in children with autism. Researchers conducted a literature review using 25 articles on social competence in children with autism who had been previously selected. This article is analyzed and explained descriptively. The findings of this article analysis show that there are some similarities and differences between the treatments, such as approaches of treatment that tend to use a humanistic and behavioral approach. some participation is classic involving family members, while contemporary treatments involves parents, teachers, and peers. Contemporary approaches use more varied media such as technology. Classic treatment settings tend to be done in a room, while the more varied settings belong to the contemporary ones. Classic treatments have a shorter duration and the effectiveness of contemporary treatments is lower than classics due to the large variety of media.