Antecedent (Preventive) Intervention
James K. Luiselli
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter discusses antecedent (preventive) interventions for children with autism and illustrates how antecedent and setting events in achild's environment can be arranged to prevent ...
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Asperger's Syndrome and Problems Related to Stress
Tony Attwood
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter examines the possible causes of stress for any child, with particular attention to why these potentially stressful situations are more severe and prolonged for children with ...
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Assessment and Coping Strategies
June Groden, M. Grace Baron, and Gerald Groden
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter addresses the characteristics of autism that make this population especially vulnerable to stress; assessment procedures to measure responses to stressors; and clinical, ...
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Ralf W. Schlosser, Jeff Sigafoos, Howard Shane, Rajinder Koul, and Parimala Raghavendra
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Many children and youth with ASD benefit from having their natural speech supplemented or replaced through augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. The purpose of this ...
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention for Children with Autism
Ralf W. Schlosser and Oliver Wendt
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
The main purpose of this chapter is to offer practitioners and otherstakeholders an appraisal of the evidence for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions with ...
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Autism and the Physiology of Stress and Anxiety
Raymond G. Romanczyk and Jennifer M. Gillis
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter discusses the important contribution of the constructs of stress and anxiety to assist in treatment formulation from a psychophysiological perspective. It explores anxiety, ...
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Behavior-Contingent (Restrictive) Intervention: A Function-Based Approach
Dorothea C. Lerman
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter discusses behavior-contingent (restrictive) intervention. It describes commonly used intrusive procedures, to summarize research findings onpunishment, and to offer some ...
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Behavioral Family Intervention
Adel C. Najdowski and Evelyn R. Gould
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Parent training is a critical component of effective intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). With the rise in ASD, the need for evidence-based and cost-effective ...
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Best Practice Methods in Staff Training
Peter Sturmey
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter discusses best practice methods in staff training for applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It includes staff training needs, ...
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Blind Tom: A Celebrated Slave Pianist Coping with the Stress of Autism
John Davis and M. Grace Baron
in Stress and Coping in Autism
Chapter 5 presents a review of the life and circumstances of a musical savant born into slavery named Tom Wiggins, known to the American public as ‘Blind Tom’, including psychological ...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Robert R. Selles, Danielle Ung, Josh Nadeau, and Eric A. Storch
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
This chapter focuses on the use of CBT for anxiety and anger, two symptom domains that commonly co-occur in youth with ASD and are associated with significant additional impairment. ...
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Communication and Stress in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Diane Twachtman-Cullen
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter explores the complex, multidimensional relationship between communication and stress in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is based on the premise that because ...
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Comorbidity Among Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nicole Neil, Laura Moum, and Peter Sturmey
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Comorbid conditions are common in children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. This chapter reviews the evidence on assessment, treatment and symptom overlap for Attention ...
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Components of executive function in autism and other disorders
Sally Ozonoff
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter discusses components of executive function in autism. It explores the discriminant validity problem, methodological issues, and the information processing approach. It also ...
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Computer-Based Instruction
Jeff Sigafoos, Sathiyaprakash Ramdoss, Debora Kagohara, Robert C. Pennington, Giulio E. Lancioni, and Mark F. O’Reilly
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
This chapter focuses on the use of computer-based instruction (CBI) for teaching persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Our review considers the types of CBI systems that have been ...
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Conducting Diagnostic Screening and Assessment
Johnny L. Matson, Jennifer S. Beighley, Lindsey W. Williams, and Anna C. May
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Efficient screening and assessment are critical to treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD), with implications for funding and service provision. Valid and reliable measures are needed not ...
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Developmental Play Assessment and Teaching
Karin Lifter
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter discusses developmental play assessment and teaching children with autism. It presents a brief overview of descriptions of play and their links to intervention, a rationale for ...
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Luke Y. Tsai
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter reviews anxiety disorders in individuals with either an autistic disorder or Asperger's disorder. Building on an overview of the comorbid psychiatric disorders of both autistic ...
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Discrete Trial Training as a Teaching Paradigm
Rachel S. F. Tarbox and Adel C. Najdowski
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter describes the five parts of a discrete trial and discrete trial training (DTT) (an antecedent stimulus, which becomes a discriminative stimulus (SD), a prompt, a response, a ...
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Early Intensive Applied Behavior Analysis Intervention for Autism
William D. Frea and Erin K. McNerney
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter explore early intensive applied behavior analysis (ABA) intervention for autism. It outlines intensive programs, the history of early intervention for children with autism, ...
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