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Core deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) center around social communication and behavior. For those with ASD, these deficits complicate the task of learning how to cope with and manage complex social emotional issues. Although individuals with ASD may receive sufficient academic and basic behavioral support in school settings, supports for dealing with complex social emotional issues are more difficult to access, even though these issues significantly impact student learning. When addressing these challenging social- and emotional-based issues, school and professional personnel need more specific instructional skill sets and resources to effectively and compassionately support students with ASD. In this article, we address three challenging areas of social emotional development that are commonly experienced by individuals with ASD: Anxiety, social isolation, and grief. We briefly explore the existing research on these three topics, identify evidence-based practices and learning strategies to support social emotional learning in individuals with ASD, and include descriptive lists of practical resources that address anxiety, social isolation, and grief.

In response to escalating business travel costs, many firms have formed corporate travel management departments to help control these expenses. This study examines how efficiently these departments are operating by employing a stochastic frontier technique in addition to a linear programming procedure. Both of these methods construct efficient frontiers that represent the minimum costs that need to be allocated to corporate travel given the number of trips that firms take. Any costs incurred beyond the efficient frontiers are deemed excess, and the firms are classified as inefficient. The results using both procedures indicate that the corporate travel management departments are relatively efficient. In a competitive market, it is expected that more firms will begin to use in-house travel management departments to help control the rise of travel-related expenses.