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Collin Shepley – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Program evaluation is an essential practice for providers of behavior analytic services, as it helps providers understand the extent to which they are achieving their intended mission to the community they serve. A proposed method for conducting such evaluations, is through the use of a consecutive case series design, for which cases are…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Hoffman, Kate; Vieira, Veronica M.; Daniels, Julie L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
We investigated differences in the geographic distribution of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) over time in central North Carolina with data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. Using generalized additive models and geographic information systems we produced maps of ASD risk in 2002-2004 and 2006-2008. Overall the risk…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Incidence, Risk
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Stoit, Astrid M. B.; van Schie, Hein T.; Slaats-Willemse, Dorine I. E.; Buitelaar, Jan K. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Different views on the origin of deficits in action chaining in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been posited, ranging from functional impairments in action planning to internal models supporting motor control. Thirty-one children and adolescents with ASD and twenty-nine matched controls participated in a two-choice reach-to-grasp paradigm…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Models