Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities articles from December 2001

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities archives from December 2001

Functional behavioral assessment and students with autism spectrum disorders: roots, row, and the future.
December 22, 2001... This special issue of Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities examines the research on functional assessment methods and their application to children and youth with autism. In preparing this issue, we not only stopped to consider...

Searching for effectiveness and efficiency in conducting functional assessments: a review and proposed process for teachers and other practitioners.
December 22, 2001... There has been a tremendous increase in interest in and information about functional assessment and analysis strategies. However, teachers and other practitioners continue to struggle with choices about the most effective and efficient...

Family involvement in functional assessment and positive behavior support.
December 22, 2001... Recent developments in the field of autism and related disabilities have included two prominent themes: (a) the emergence of functional assessment (FA) as a requisite step in behavioral support and (b) a growing acknowledgment that families...

Functional assessment strategies for young children with autism.
December 22, 2001... Functional assessments (FAs) are becoming more commonplace in early childhood special education. In this article we describe the FA procedures used in Project DATA, a school-based program to serve young children with autism and their families....

Functional behavioral assessment and children with autism: working as a team.
December 22, 2001... The purpose of this article is to present a team approach to functional behavioral assessment (FBA). The model uses a transdisciplinary technical assistance team approach to assessing and planning interventions for young children with autism...

Functional analysis: the use of analogues in applied settings.
December 22, 2001... For more than 15 years, functional assessment has been increasingly used by practitioners and researchers to link specific environmental events identified as affecting challenging behavior to the selection of effective intervention strategies....

Application of choice-making intervention for a student with multiply maintained problem behavior.
December 22, 2001... A functional behavioral assessment was completed for a 10-year-old boy with autism and problem behavior. The assessment indicated that both teacher attention and escape from task demands maintained his problem behavior. A choice-making...

Religious coping in families of children with autism.
December 22, 2001... We assessed the role of religion in the coping of families of children with autism. Forty-five parents completed the Brief RCOPE; identified stressors of autism; and completed measures of psychological adjustment (depression and anxiety),...

Calendar.
December 22, 2001... * JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 2, 2002 The Early Years: Building Family Capacity/Building Supportive Communities. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Contact: 604/822-0054; e-mail: interprof@cehs. ubc.ca; Web site: www.geocities.com/ UBCinterprof * FEBRUARY...