One strategy for enhancing social relationships in transition planning is:
A) Supported decision making
B) Peer mentoring
C) Self-awareness
D) Self-determination

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The ability of transition-age youth to generalize daily life skills to a variety of contextual situations is also key to their success in living in the community. Typically developing peers who serve as mentors can aid transition-age youth with generalization and social skill acquisition. These mentors learn how to use explicit interaction strategies, such as modeling, prompting, and reinforcement, within the context of partnered group activities to promote social interaction and generalization (Kamps et al., 2002; Powers et al., 2012; Powers et al., 2018). The mentors change the social context as they encourage those with disabilities or in foster care to strengthen social relationships and discover opportunities for community inclusion (Crabtree, 2014; Powers et al., 2018). Participation in mainstream social activities within the community allows transition-age youth to refine and generalize their social participation skills. For instance, young adults with autism showed improvement in their self-perceptions of task leadership and social competence when engaging in challenge course activities with university student peers (Crabtree & Demchick, 2015). Additionally, the peer mentors develop skills for infusing "more equitable opportunities, resources, privilege, and enablement" (Whiteford & Townsend, 2011, p. 66) when they eventually become peer employees, employers, and community partners of the transition-age youth. The peers' ability to accept and understand youth with disabilities or living in foster care promotes strengths-based, developmentally appropriate relationships and experiences within the community. This potentially leads to the decreased segregation and increased inclusion of transition-age youth in all aspects of community life (Stewart et al., 2013).

One Strategy for Enhancing Social Relationships in Transition Planning Is