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Wu, Pei-Fang; Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Wheaton, Joe E.; Tullis, Chris A. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Two students with developmental disabilities were taught two daily living skills using video prompting with error correction presented on an iPod Touch, and two different fading procedures were implemented. In one fading procedure, individual video clips were merged into multiple larger clips following acquisition of the entire skill. In the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Sutton, Lawrence R.; Hughes, Tammy L.; Huang, Ann; Lehman, Cathryn; Paserba, David; Talkington, Vanessa; Taormina, Rochelle; Walters, Jessie B.; Fenclau, Eric; Marshall, Stephanie – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Using the criteria established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the assessment procedures for establishing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a previously undiagnosed adjudicated group is detailed. We examined 37 male adolescents adjudicated delinquent for sexual offenses who were sentenced to treatment. Ultimately, 22 (60%) were found to…
Descriptors: Autism, Disability Identification, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Delinquency
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McKnight, Megan E.; Culotta, Vincent P. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Research examining neuropsychological profiles of girls with Asperger's disorder (AD) is sparse. In this study, we sought to characterize neurocognitive profiles of girls with AD compared to girls with learning disabilities (LD). Two groups of school-age girls referred for neuropsychological assessment participated in the study. A total of 23…
Descriptors: Females, Learning Disabilities, Profiles, Asperger Syndrome
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Hundert, Joel; van Delft, Sari – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2009
A multiple-probe design was used to evaluate the effects of training on three children functioning on the higher end of the autism spectrum who were individually taught to answer each of three types of inferential "why" questions: (a) questions based on a three-card picture sequence, (b) questions based on a verbally presented brief…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Questioning Techniques, Inferences