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Integrating Universal Behavioral Screening within Program-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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Burke, Mack D.; Rispoli, Mandy; Clemens, Nathan H.; Lee, Yuan-Hsuan; Sanchez, Lisa; Hatton, Heather – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2016
Universal behavioral screening is a major part of positive behavioral support and response to intervention systems. Program-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) focuses on establishing social, emotional, and behavioral competence through promotion of a small set of behavioral expectations that are agreed upon, taught, and…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Screening Tests, Intervention, Validity
Communication Performance of Children with down Syndrome: An ICF-CY Based Multiple Case Study
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Deckers, Stijn R. J. M.; Van Zaalen, Yvonne; Stoep, Judith; Van Balkom, Hans; Verhoeven, Ludo – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
Enhancing communication performance skills may help children with Down Syndrome (DS) to expand their opportunities for participation in daily life. It is a clinical challenge for speech-language pathologists (SLP) to disentangle various mechanisms that contribute to the language and communication problems that children with DS encounter. Without…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Down Syndrome, Case Studies, Speech Language Pathology
Diagnostic Efficiency of Several Methods of Identifying Socially Rejected Children and Effect of Participation Rate on Classification Accuracy
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McKown, Clark; Gumbiner, Laura M.; Johnson, Jason – Journal of School Psychology, 2011
Social rejection is associated with a wide variety of negative outcomes. Early identification of social rejection and intervention to minimize its negative impact is thus important. However, sociometric methods, which are considered high in validity for identifying socially rejected children, are frequently not used because of (a) procedural…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Social Status, Sociometric Techniques, Identification
A Classification of Behaviour Problems Exhibited by People with Intellectual Disability.
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Tustin, R. Don; And Others – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1991
Analysis of data from the Behaviour Disorder Scale for 405 adults and adolescents with intellectual disability revealed that subjects exhibited a mean of 14 problem behaviors per person. Factor analysis identified two general syndromes (a conduct syndrome and an emotional syndrome), raising the possibility of dealing with sets of problem behaviors…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns
Predicting Positive Outcomes for Students with Emotional Disturbance
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Nickerson, Amanda B.; Brosof, Amy M.; Shapiro, Valerie B. – California School Psychologist, 2004
This longitudinal study assessed changes in skills for students with emotional disturbance (ED) over a one-year time period in a private special education school and examined variables that predicted positive outcomes for these students. At Time 1, teachers rated 84 students with ED using standardized behavior rating scales to assess problem…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Private Schools, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Rating Scales
The Source for Asperger's Syndrome.
Kowalski, Timothy P. – 2002
This book is intended as a comprehensive source of information on the diagnosis and treatment of Asperger syndrome. Chapter 1 discusses major classification of characteristics and chapter 2 describes prevalence, comorbidity, and causal factors of Asperger syndrome. Chapter 3 examines clinical diagnosis and misdiagnosis and the influence of…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Behavior Modification