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Everything you need to know to educate students with autism
Every 20 minutes, another child is diagnosed with autism. Are you ready to meet this growing educational challenge? This authoritative guide for practitioners—early interventionists, teachers, school counselors and psychologists—provides practical strategies for addressing the unique needs of children on the autism spectrum and their families.
Drawing on current research and evidence-based practice, the authors discuss the causes of autism and present methods for educating children and assisting their families in supporting the educational process. Each chapter focuses on a critical issue and offers solutions, including: Improving communication, social, generalization and self-management skills; Designing instruction, intervention, and assessment; Including families in developing goals and interventions; Using students' special interests to deliver instruction; Understanding and preventing challenging behavior; Evaluating practices to promote successful outcomes for students, families and practitioners
Included are forms, charts, and activities to help practitioners and families fulfill learning programs. Educating Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders will give you insight and tools to make a difference in the learning and lives of students with autism spectrum disorders.
Evidence-Based Strategies for Maintenance, Generalization, and Self-Management
Evidence-Based Strategies for Maintenance, Generalization, and Self-Management
Chapter Objectives:
- Define and describe strategies for promoting maintenance.
- Define and describe strategies for programming generalization.
- Define and describe strategies for teaching self-management.
Children learn new skills through a variety of methods (e.g., observation, adult prompting, environmental cues). Once a student has learned a new skill, it is imperative to ensure the student has generalized (i.e., performed in different settings, activities, or routines; with different peers or adults; and with different stimuli [materials, cues]) and maintained the skill over time (i.e., performs the skill for consecutive days, weeks, or months with naturally occurring antecedent cues and without the adult or environmental prompts). This may be particularly ...
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