Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) have shown improvements in social skills, social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and problem behaviors across several independent research groups with confirmatory EEG results and across cultural translations of the PEERS program. An adaptation of the PEERS program for young adults has also demonstrated improvements in social knowledge, empathy, anxiety, and loneliness. 

In ongoing development of PEERS®, The College to Career Transition Program is an innovative program offering for undergraduate and graduate students who have a diagnosis of autism who are interested in acquiring job-related, social, and practical skills, a successful transition from educational to employment settings. The program teaches students necessary skills for obtaining and maintaining a job and provides an internship experience to practice learned skills. The program creates a scalable solution to employment barriers faced by individuals and serves as a model of higher education training for post- secondary educational institutions.

Definition Diverse plans to host the PEERS® for Careers training in Australia following research and program completion, to therefore enable individuals to achieve competitive employment as well as shifts in work culture to embrace neurodiversity in the workplace.