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While playing Go Fish, a prompt to reciprocate about the holidays is provided.

On a tour of San Marcos High School, a prompt is provided to reciprocate questions about sports.

Great conversation about high schools in Santa Barbara

Having a conversation about popular books

Our buddies chat it up while taking a leisurely stroll with their dogs at Hendry's Beach.

Watch how much fun our buddies have as they boogie on down at Homecoming!

Watch as Aaron (Facilitator) teaches Jack (Peer Buddy) how to work on Reciprocal Conversation with his buddy. Way to go, guys!

Watch how Angela (Facilitator) trains Lillie (Peer Buddy) in how to teach her buddy to ask prior to obtaining a preferred item. Great job, girls!

At their weekly City Council Meeting, Santa Barbara Unified School District representative Susan Deacon speaks about PeerBuddies.

On Day 1 of our first-ever Inclusive Summer Camp, our buddies ask each other questions to get to know each other.

Our awesome Camp Counselor - Judy Chavez - leads the "ChuggaChugga" song at Inclusion Camp!

Inclusion Camp Potato-Sack racing - what a blast!

Our Inclusion Campers are fully integrated in this exciting game of Sharks and Minnows!

Our Inclusion Campers are fully integrated in this Water Balloon Toss Game at Elings Park!

Our buddies have a blast at the Water Slide at Inclusion Camp! Watch how encouraging everyone is!

Allissa reviews the "Buddy Rules" during our PeerBuddies Social Skills Group.

What a great Peer Buddy Lillie is! Watch how she helps her buddy get through the obstacle course!

Our buddies practice so many great social skills while making lemonade together!

Lillie's buddy does a beautiful job praising her for doing a good job! Watch the heart-warming smiles on their faces!

Our kiddo's have a blast playing Grandma's Footsteps! Great job as "grandma", Allissa!

Our group plays Sound Pictures by making their sound when their animal is called out. We love the Cougar sound!

Sean - one of our Participants - talks about his experience during PeerBuddies

Erandi - one of our incredible Peer Buddies - talks about her experience as a Buddy.

Amalie - one of our Peer Buddies - talks about her experience being a buddy at Inclusion Camp

Grace - one of our Peer Buddies - talks about her experience being a buddy at Inclusion Camp

One of our Peer Buddies talks about what she loves about PeerBuddies and PeerBuddies Inclusion Camp

One of our Inclusion Camp Facilitators - Aaron - talks about his experience working with PeerBuddies

Nicole talks about her experience being a Peer Buddy at Inclusion Camp

One of our Facilitators - Krysta - talks about her experience working with PeerBuddies

One of our Inclusion Camp Facilitators - Sarah - talks about her experience with PeerBuddies

Zyania - one of our Inclusion Camp Facilitators - talks about her experience with PeerBuddies

Our Peer Buddy - Spencer - comes up with a fun way to work on questions!

Our buddies have a blast getting to know each other! Watch how the realization that he's on a rope swing sets in!

Our buddies learn about physics in a fun, interactive way at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History!

Brolin is such an incredible Peer Buddy - and guitarist! Thanks for the lesson, Bro!

Our Peer Buddy - Spencer - talks about the importance of eye contact in a funny, creative way

Our buddies have so much fun at Montecito Union School's Carnival!

Andrea - our fantastic Peer Buddy - keeps her buddy thoroughly engaged and hanging on her every word!

Watch as our Peer Buddy - Andrea - seamlessly prompts a reciprocal questions during a game of Scrabble at the Santa Barbara Sunken Gardens!

Erandi does a beautiful job prompting her buddy to use his words - "All Done" to indicate he'd like to transition to another activity. Excellent work, Erandi!

Erandi - one of our Peer Buddies - teaches her buddy to use his words before obtaining another goldfish.

Our Peer Buddies goof around during their hike at the beautiful Butterfly Preserve in Santa Barbara. Cool trick, Brolin!

We're so proud of our buddy for his initiation about restaurants!

One of our Participants reads his buddy the story of his life, including his diagnosis - CHARGE Syndrome. Our Peer Buddy is so lucky to learn from him!

Our buddies have genuine "girl time" at Claire's. How fun!

Anne (our incredible Peer Buddy) does a beautiful job engaging her buddy in reciprocal conversation.

Our buddies are adorable shopping together!

Our buddies do a great job discussing art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Great initiations!

Our buddies go slot car racing at Hobby Central in Santa Barbara. What a blast!