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Peer-Mediated Intervention (PMI) is an effective strategy that has been found to enhance social skills deficits and academic performance in students with autism spectrum disorder ASD (Hart & Banda, 2018). It is a concept that has its roots in the regular education initiative of the mid-1980s and instructional approaches such as Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), which have the shared goal of creating an inclusive general education (GE) setting where children with special needs are educated alongside their typical peers (Hart, & Banda, 2018; Leach & Helf, 2016). The amendment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([IDEA], 2004) directs that student with disabilities, including ASD, should be educated in GE classrooms with their typical peers to the maximum extent possible (McCurdy & Cole, 2014). Research has shown that peer-tutoring intervention is an effective strategy to improve children and adolescents’ academic and life skills (Hart & ability in writing essays.
Abstract
The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a Peer-Mediated Intervention (PMI) on writing skills for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the inclusive classroom. The participants in this study were two seventh-grade students, one neurotypical student who acted as a tutor and has achieved high academic outcomes in the area of writing, the other participant is the tutee, who had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and struggled with development of writing skills. The study utilized multiple-baseline design across behaviors to identify the effectiveness of a PMI on writing skills for the student with ASD in three areas of writing skills (i.e., subject-verb agreement, capitalization/spelling, punctuation). The results of the present study showed that PMI yielded significant improvements in academic achievement for the target student. This study suggests that further studies replicate the current study with an intensive focus on other academic skills, such as reading comprehension and mathematics.