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Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) ✔✔-Observation tool for teachers to record individual progress toward the achievement of four desired results... *Socially & personally competent *Effective Learners *show physical & motor Competence safe & healthy Desired results for Families (DRDP) ✔✔families support their child's learning and development *families achieve their own goals Skills streaming ✔✔-A social skills training method introduced by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein in 1973
- 4 part training approach *modeling *role-playing
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*performance feedback *Generalization Errorless learning ✔✔-Therapy strategy that ensures children always respond correctly
- As each skill is taught, children are provided with a prompt or cue immediately following an instruction Serial Thinking ✔✔-Theory that individuals with autism cannot process more than one piece of information at a time.
- Give clients one instruction at a time to help support the client Transitions in TEACCH ✔✔-Students are typically provided with transition objects when moving from one center to another
- place object or card in a receiving box or envelope Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) as part of IDEA ✔✔-students must spend as much time as possible mainstreaming in general education Founding figures in ABA ✔✔-Pavlov: respondent conditioning
Episodic Severity ✔✔-Help us track progress or changes in problem behaviors *intense behavior can impact others even if it happens once a month Interobserver Agreement (IOA) ✔✔-procedure for enhancing the believability of data
- Compares independent observations from two or more people of the same event Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) ✔✔-Systematic process of gathering information about the functions a problem behavior serves for an individual.
- Helps determine relationship between goals and objectives with the behavior intervention plan IEP Goals and Objectives ✔✔-one annual goal *3 objectives **objectives are smaller benchmarks that the client will meet throughout the year (2-3 typically but the standard is 3) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and DTT ✔✔-break skills down into smaller steps
- teach single, discrete, specific behaviors
*once specific behaviors are mastered, we chain or shape to get more complex behaviors Joint attention ✔✔-sharing attention between another person and an object IDEA ✔✔ASD was added in 1990 Rate of Autism ✔✔-Old rate= 1 in 68
- New rate= 1 in 59 Perseveration ✔✔Behavior that is repetitive in nature Replacement Behavior ✔✔-the behavior adults teach a child to use instead of the challenging behavior
- REPLACE the targeted problem behavior.
- This Behavior MATCHES the function of the problem behavior Alternate behavior ✔✔-an appropriate behavior that can be used INSTEAD of the targeted problem Behavior, BUT it does NOT serve the same function
- NOT= individuals from public agencies (cops, teachers, firefighters) Previous diagnosis's that were given to ASD before ✔✔-schizophrenia, mentally retarded (now intellectually disabled), and emotionally disturbed. Main difference between Autism and Asperger's ✔✔-Asperger's= an avg IQ
- ASD= below AVG IQ ASD was added to IDEA when ✔✔- 1990 Duty to warn/protect ✔✔-WARN= client makes threats towards another person and client has both the means and intent to carry out threat; must warn intended victim
- PROTECT= client presents a serious danger to himself or others; steps must be taken to protect intended victim. (involves informing local police dept) Possible causes of ASD ✔✔-no KNOWN, SINGLE cause of ASD
- Genetics & environment
*causes include= genetic disorder that results in hormonal imbalances, metabolic disorders, etc. Abnormalities in brain structure. Exposure to high levels of testosterone, viral infections, chemicals, etc. *risk factors include=
- older father, history of ASD in family, mother had viral infection or diabetes during gestation, exposure to teratogens. two types of reinforcers ✔✔-Primary= innate, unconditioned, or unlearned. Born knowing that these things are good. (water, sleep, temperature) [Pavlov]
- Secondary= conditioned or learned. learn through pairing. (toys, tokens, money) [Skinner] 3 term contingency ✔✔-ABC: antecedent, behavior, consequence *A->B<-C classical conditioning ✔✔-Pavlovian *CS-no response-US- Reflex *CS+US - > reflex/respondent Bx *Antecedent/trigger --> Conditioned response
