The Effectiveness of Point-of-View Video Modeling as a Social Skills Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Abstract

Distinguishing characteristics of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are deficits in social communication and interaction. Point-of-view video modeling has the potential to address these deficits. Therefore, the literature review investigated research targeting social skills through the application of point-of-view video modeling. Both electronic and ancestral searches of the literature yielded five pertinent studies, which included research conducted from 2006 to 2012, and included participants between the ages of 2 and 8 years of age. The limited number of studies which addressed this area provided inconclusive results. Consequently, there continues to be unanswered questions, which include investigating necessary prerequisite skills, video priming and prompting, length of video models, and how both generalization and maintenance of social skills can be enhanced.