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Reading Buddies: A Strategy to Increase Peer Interaction in Students with Autism
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Simpson, Lisa A.; Bui, Yvonne – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often challenged by social interaction and may require substantial support to interact with peers even in inclusive settings. Having adults support students with ASD during peer interactions, however, may ostracize the student from peers without disabilities. Peer-mediated strategies are needed so…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interaction, Peer Relationship
Filling the Educator Pipeline: Recruiting Male Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
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Godfrey, Roxie V.; Manis, Kerry T. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2017
To encourage males to enter the teaching field, specifically in family and consumer sciences (FCS), FCS professionals should participate in recruitment initiatives aimed at males. Administrators, teacher educators, career counselors, and FCS teachers can play a significant role in this comprehensive and systematic effort. This paper adopts the…
Descriptors: Males, Teacher Recruitment, Sustainability, Consumer Science
Determining Responsiveness to School Counseling Interventions Using Behavioral Observations
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Gruman, Diana H.; Hoelzen, Brian – Professional School Counseling, 2011
School districts are in the process of adopting the Response to Intervention (RTI) approach to identify and remediate academic and behavioral deficits. As an integral member of the school behavior team, school counselors must use data on individual interventions to contribute to the data-based decision making process in RTI. This article presents…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Decision Making, School Counseling, School Counselors
Treating Excessively Slow Responding of a Young Man with Asperger Syndrome Using Differential Reinforcement of Short Response Latencies
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Tiger, Jeffrey H.; Bouxsein, Kelly J.; Fisher, Wayne W. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
Fjellstedt and Sulzer-Azaroff (1973) used differential reinforcement of short latencies to decrease a child's latency to comply with instructions. We replicated this contingency with a young man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome across two tasks (question answering and math problem solving). We added a differential reinforcement contingency to…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Reinforcement, Problem Solving, Reaction Time
The Things We Care to See: The Effects of Rotated Protocol Immersion on the Emergence of Early Observing Responses
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Keohane, Dolleen-Day; Luke, Nicole; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
We tested the effect of a Rotated Protocol Immersion package on the emergence of observing responses as prerequisites for more complex verbal developmental capabilities. Three elementary aged students between the ages of 6 and 7 participated. They were diagnosed with autism spectrum disabilities. The treatment condition consisted of total…
Descriptors: Child Development, Verbal Development, Autism, Attention
Changing Teachers' In-Class Behavior Through A Group Training Program.
Weinberg, Gary L. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that specific in-class behaviors of classroom teachers could be modified by training. Focused on were these four behaviors: (a) positive reinforcement (PR), (b) negative reinforcement (NR), (c) amount of time the teacher talks as a percentage of all talk in class, and (d) encouragement of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques