Full Description
Identify the best interventions to fit the unique needs of each learner with autism
Whatever your role—general or special education teacher, school counselor, therapist, behavior analyst, administrator—you undoubtedly interact with learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and are committed to helping them succeed and thrive.
This easy-to-use accessible guide summarizes more than 75 interventions and rates each based on the most recent evidence of effectiveness and safety.
Features include:
A summary of interventions and treatments from a comprehensive variety of domains organized into 11 categories, including behavioral interventions, visual supports, social and emotional skills training, and physiological interventions, as well as interventions that have the potential for causing harm
An evidence-based five-point scale that clearly rates each intervention's effectiveness for specific learners
Guidance for working with colleagues and families to choose and implement the most promising treatments
Written by educators with decades of experience and expertise in a variety of settings, many of whom are also Board Certified Behavior Analysts, this comprehensive guide is an indispensable resource for all those who serve students with ASD.
Contents
Behavioral Interventions
Antecedent Based Interventions - Sonja de Boer
Discrete Trial Teaching - Sonja de Boer
Errorless Learning - Sonja de Boer
Task Analysis - Sonja de Boer
Prompting - Amy Clausen
Time Delay - Sonja de Boer
Behavioral Momentum - Sonja de Boer
Response Interruption and Redirection - Sabrina Mitchell
Reinforcement - Sonja de Boer
Differential Reinforcement - Leslie Bross
Modeling - Sonja de Boer
Functional Behavioral Assessment - Sonja de Boer
Functional Communication Training - Sonja de Boer
Extinction - Sonja de Boer
Punishment - Sonja de Boer
UCLA Young Autism Project (Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention) - Leslie Bross
Early Start Denver Model(Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention) - Kaye Otten
Learning Experiences: An Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Parents (LEAP) (Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention) - Kaye Otten
Ziggurat/Comprehensive Autism Planning System - Katie McDermott
Visual Supports
Schedules - Leslie Bross
Independent Work Systems - Leslie Bross
Scripting - Leslie Bross
Power Cards - Leslie Bross
Language Training
Verbal Behavior Intervention - Janet Enriquez; Monique Pinczynski
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) - J Ganz
Aided Language Modeling - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Assisted Technology - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)) - Janet Enriquez; Monique Pinczynski
Social, Emotional and/or Behavioral Skills Training
Behavioral Skills Training - Kaye Otten
Teaching Interaction Procedure - Kaye Otten
Cool Versus Not Cool - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Video Modeling - Leslie Bross
Theory of mind training - Kaye Otten
Cartooning - Kaye Otten
Social Decision-Making Strategies - Kaye Otten
Social Narratives/ Story-based Intervention - Kaye Otten
The Program for Education and Enrichment of Relationship Skills (PEERS®) - Melanie Harms
Self-Management - Stephen Crutchfield
Mindfulness - Stephen Crutchfield
The Coping Cat Program - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Social Thinking - Sonja de Boer
Zones of Regulation - Matthew Klein
The Incredible Five Point Scale - Amy Clausen
FaceSay® - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Mindreading - Theresa Earles-Vollrath
Natural Developmental Behavioral Interventions
Incidental Teaching - Kaye Otten; Mary Beth Patry
Imitation Based Interventions - Kaye Otten; Mary Beth Patry
Mileau Teaching - Kaye Otten; Mary Beth Patry
Joint Attention Interventions - Kaye Otten
Pivotal Response Interventions - Kaye Otten
Developmental Relationship-Based Interventions
Responsive Teaching - Kaye Otten
DIRFloor Time® - Kaye Otten
Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) - Kaye Otten
Relational Frame Theory Based Interventions
Stimulus Equivalence Instruction (SEI) - Trudy Georgio
Matrix Training - Trudy Georgio
Promoting Emergence of Advanced Knowledge (PEAK) - Trudy; Georgio Lindsey Loflin
Acceptance and Commitment Training - Sabrina Mitchell; Trudy Georgio
Miscellaneous Interventions
Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention - Ashley Anderson; Paula Williams
Parent Implemented Interventions - Ashley Anderson; Paula Williams
Music Mediated Intervention - Melanie Harms
Music Intensity - Melanie Harms
Animal Assisted Intervention - Lisa Robbins
Art Therapy - Lane Maxcy
Outdoor Adventure - Lane Maxcy
Toilet Training - Lisa Robbins
SENSE Theatre Intervention - Lane Maxcy
Exercise and Movement - Melanie Harms
Gentle Teaching - Kaye Otten
Transition
Systematic Transition in Education Programme for Autism Spectrum Disorder (STEP-ASD) - Leslie Bross
Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI) - Katie McDermott
Person-Centered Planning - Jessica Rousey
Physiological Interventions
Chelation - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Specialized Diets - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Microbiome Therapies - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Metavitamin Therapy - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Sensory Integration - Kaye Otten
Potential of Causing Significant Harm
Rapid Prompting Method - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Holding Therapy - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
Contingent Electric Skin Shock (CESS) - Stephen Crutchfield; Mariah Chavez
ADVANCING THE EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE MOVEMENT - Kaye Otten
