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Lee Sook Huey; Asma Perveen; Fatanah Ramlee – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
This case study aims to report on the psychological assessment and intervention for a 4-year-old preschooler with selective mutism. A comprehensive assessment that involves parents and teacher interview, classroom observation, Seguin Form Board Test (SFBT), Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales Third Edition (Vineland-3), Behaviour Assessment System…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Anxiety, Psychosomatic Disorders, Communication Problems
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Mrachko, Alicia A.; Kaczmarek, Louise A.; Kostewicz, Douglas E.; Vostal, Brooks – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
We examined adult behavioral skills training (BST) for home-based therapeutic support staff (TSS) using a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) derived from Project ImPACT. We taught three TSS to use interactive strategies with online modules, in-vivo training, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Training, Home Programs, Behavior Modification, Young Children
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Michalek, Anne M. P.; Phalen, Lisa; Bobzien, Jonna L.; Chen, Chung-Hao; Urbano, Maria; Hartmann, Kathrin; Okwara, Leonore; Gorrepati, Purnima; Deutsch, Stephen; Williams, Takeshia – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Social communication deficits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder are often exacerbated during adolescence. Group based approaches are effective intervention techniques for facilitating improved social communication skills in people with ASD; however, science, technology, engineering, and math activities, while highly preferred areas of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Strid, Karin; Heimann, Mikael; Gillberg, Christopher; Smith, Lars; Tjus, Tomas – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Deferred imitation and early social communication skills were compared among speaking and nonspeaking children with autism and children developing typically. Overall, the children with autism showed a lower frequency on measures of deferred imitation and social communication compared with typically developing children. Deferred imitation was…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Verbal Communication, Communication Disorders
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Matson, Johnny L.; Mahan, Sara; Hess, Julie A.; Fodstad, Jill C.; Neal, Daniene – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
Previous studies analyzed the reliability as well as sensitivity and specificity of the Autism Spectrum Disorder-Diagnostic for Children (ASD-DC). This study further examines the psychometric properties of the ASD-DC by assessing whether the ASD-DC has convergent validity against a psychometrically sound observational instrument for Autistic…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Validity
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Ganz, Jennifer B.; Flores, Margaret M.; Lashley, Erin E. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
Students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have difficulties with verbal language. Many interventions to remediate such deficits require numerous materials and significant teacher time. This study sought to determine if a simple multi-component intervention that incorporated noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) and verbal modeling would result in…
Descriptors: Autism, Intervention, Reinforcement, Models