Behavioral Theories and Interventions for Autism.

Intro -- BEHAVIORAL THEORIES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM -- BEHAVIORAL THEORIES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM - NEW DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART 1: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO THEIR TREATMENT -- Chapter 1 MATCHING TREATMENT TO THE FUNCTION OF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR -- FUNCTION AS THE BASIS FOR TREATMENT -- EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO TREATMENT -- IN-HOME ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT -- ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PROCEDURES -- CASE EXAMPLE -- ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT RESULTS FOR CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH ASD -- CLINIC-BASED ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF PROBLEM BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY AUTOMATIC REINFORCEMENT -- SUMMARY AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 STIMULUS OVERSELECTIVITY IN DISCRIMINATION LEARNING -- OVERSELECTIVITY PROBLEM AREAS -- OVERSELECTIVITY IN DISCRIMINATION LEARNING -- EXAMPLES OF STIMULUS OVERSELECTIVITY IN A SPECIAL-EDUCATION SETTING -- EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES IN OVERSELECTIVITY RESEARCH -- A SELECTIVE SUMMARY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS -- RESEARCH ON REMEDIATION OF OVERSELECTIVITY -- REMEDIATION VIA DIFFERENTIAL OBSERVING RESPONSES -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 RECIPROCAL IMITATION TRAINING: A NATURALISTIC BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO TEACHING IMITATION TO YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- STRUCTURED BEHAVIORAL APPROACH -- DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH -- NATURALISTIC BEHAVIORAL APPROACH -- RECIPROCAL IMITATION TRAINING -- RESEARCH ON RECIPROCAL IMITATION TRAINING -- ONGOING WORK -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 RELATIONAL FRAME THEORY INTERVENTIONS FOR PERSPECTIVE-TAKING DEFICITS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS.

PRECURSORS TO PERSPECTIVE TAKING -- THEORIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS -- LANGUAGE AND UNDERSTANDING OTHER MINDS -- TRAINING THEORY OF MIND -- BEHAVIORAL ACCOUNT OF UNDERSTANDING OTHER MINDS -- SKINNER'S VERBAL BEHAVIOR -- EQUIVALENCE AND RELATIONAL FRAME THEORY -- PERSPECTIVE-TAKING AS DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING -- PERSPECTIVE-TAKING AS DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- APPENDIX 4.1. PROTOCOL EMPLOYED BY MCHUGH ET AL., 2004 SIMPLE RELATIONS -- Simple I -YOU -- Simple HERE-THERE -- Simple NOW-THEN: -- Reversed Relations -- Reversed HERE-THERE -- Reversed NOW-THEN -- Double Reversed Relations -- HERE-THERE/NOW-THEN -- REFERENCES -- PART 2: BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS FOR INTERVENTION IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- Chapter 5 EARLY INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OF AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- EARLY INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION (EIBI) -- EARLY EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES -- ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS -- EARLY INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH -- CASE STUDIES SUPPORTING EARLY BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION -- PARENT LED EIBI APPROACHES -- COMPARISON STUDIES OF EARLY INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION AND 'ECLECTIC' OR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROVISION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, INCLUDING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER -- B. F. SKINNER'S ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR -- ONE OPERANT BECOMES ANOTHER: THE STIMULUS CONTROL TRANSFER PROCEDURES -- SELECTING A COMMUNICATION RESPONSE FORM -- DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING ABA-VERBAL BEHAVIOR PROGRAMS -- An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for an Early Learner -- An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for a Second Step Learner -- An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for a Missing Steps Learner -- An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for a Third Step Learner.

An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for a Fourth Step Learner -- An ABA-Verbal Behavior Program for an Advanced Learner -- DATA COLLECTION, FLUENCY, MAINTENANCE, AND SKILL TRACKING -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 CABAS® CONTRIBUTIONS TO IDENTIFYING, INDUCING AND SEQUENCING VERBAL DEVELOPMENT -- THE FUNCTIONS OF CABAS® SCHOOLS: LEARNER DRIVEN RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION CENTERS -- CABAS® SYSTEM TRAINING -- COMPONENTS OF THE CABAS® SYSTEM FOR TEACHING AS APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS -- EFFECTIVENESS AND THE COSTS OF CABAS® -- Designed Contingencies for Our System -- COMPONENTS OF CABAS® AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS -- VERBAL DEVELOPMENTAL CUSPS -- AN EMPIRICALLY DRIVEN THEORY OF VERBAL DEVELOPMENT -- Applied Ramifications -- Verbal Development -- Early Listener Capabilities -- When Listener Literacy is Not Forthcoming -- Early Speaker Capabilities -- Transformation of Establishing Control for the Emission of Untaught Functions for the Same Topography -- Emergence of Untaught Verb Endings and Suffixes -- Verbal Episodes between Individuals -- Joining of Speaker and Listener in the Speaker as Own Listener Capabilities -- When Print Joins the Naming Capability: Reading and Writing -- Advanced Cognitive or Verbal Capabilities -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT: SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS AMONG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS -- THE THREE TERM-CONTINGENCY -- SETTING EVENTS: A FOUR-TERM CONTINGENCY -- SETTING EVENT HYPOTHESES -- The Arousal Hypothesis -- The Interaction Hypothesis -- The Predictability Hypothesis -- The Assessment of Setting Events -- The Intervention Sequence.

Quality of Life: The Fifth Term -- POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT AND APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS -- Does ABA and PBS Mean the Same Thing? -- Is PBS Loose ABA? -- Is Positive Behavior Support Applied ABA? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART 3: FAMILY, PROFESSIONAL AND TRAINING ISSUES -- Chapter 9 A DYNAMIC TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- FINDINGS -- A DYNAMIC TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS -- Dynamic Model -- Transactional Model -- The Model for Younger Children -- The Model for Older Children -- IMPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS -- Relationship to Other Models of Parenting -- Developing Interventions -- Diagnostic Practice -- Poverty and Economic Deprivation -- LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- Participant Selection -- Measures of Parenting Behaviors -- Role of Coping Strategies -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 TEACHING PARENTS TO USE APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS WITH THEIR CHILD WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER -- PARENTS AS TEACHERS: A BRIEF HISTORY -- PARENTS AS TEACHERS: THE EARLY RESEARCH -- Koegel, Schreibman et al. -- Howlin et al. -- Harris et al. -- THE GENERAL IMPACT OF PARENT TRAINING -- EARLY USE OF NATURALISTIC METHODS -- NATURALISTIC PARENT TRAINING -- THE ROLE OF SIBLINGS -- PARENT STRESS OVER TIME -- THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL FACTORS -- WHERE ARE WE HEADED? -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 TRAINING PROFESSIONALS AND PARAPROFESSIONALS TO IMPLEMENT INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- TRAINING SPECIFIC TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- Teacher and Specialist Training -- Paraprofessional and Home-Based Instructor Training -- FIDELITY OF IMPLEMENTATION -- COLLABORATION -- Strategies: Focus on Evidence-Based Intervention Practices -- PRE-SERVICE TRAINING MODEL: PROJECT PASS -- COMMUNITY-BASED COLLABORATIVE MODEL: SARRC -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES FOR ADULTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- THE EVOLUTION OF ACTIVITY SCHEDULES -- WHY USE ACTIVITY SCHEDULES? -- THE PARTICIPANTS IN PCDI'S ADULT LIFE-SKILLS PROGRAM -- ADULTS' SCHEDULES: SOME EXAMPLES -- Personal Hygiene -- Home Living -- Community Participation -- Leisure Skills -- Employment -- Social Skills -- Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Schedules -- Problem Solving Schedules -- End Note -- ACTIVITY SCHEDULES PROMOTE GENERALIZATION -- USING ACTIVITY SCHEDULES TO TEACH SELF MONITORING -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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