Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities articles from December 2006

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities archives from December 2006

The effect of picture communication symbols on the verbal comprehension of commands by young children with autism.
December 22, 2006... The diagnosis of autism, although a source of discussion and occasional controversy, has consistently included poor communication as an essential component. Both the text revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...

Increasing appropriate social interactions of children with autism spectrum disorders using Social Stories[TM].
December 22, 2006... To date there are more than one dozen studies that validate the use of Social Stories[TM] as an effective behavioral intervention. Many of these studies focused on decreasing inappropriate behaviors (e.g., aggression, screaming, and grabbing...

Behavioral cusps: a person-centered concept for establishing pivotal individual, family, and community behaviors and repertoires.
December 22, 2006... Cumulative-hierarchical learning (CHL) and behavior, a premise first introduced by Staats in 1975, describes how higher-level behavioral patterns and structures can emerge from interactions among a set of lower-level actions. Proponents of CHL...

Assessing behavioral flexibility in individuals with developmental disabilities.
December 22, 2006... Researchers associate an insistence on sameness or lack of behavioral flexibility with autism and Asperger syndrome, but few studies have sought to identify specific situations in which individuals insist on sameness. Along these lines, we...

Effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral treatment on the social behaviors of children with Asperger disorder.
December 22, 2006... The current study presents preliminary data from an ongoing research project evaluating a summer treatment program for children with Asperger disorder (AD). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral...

Author productivity and publication trends in autism-specific journals from 1997 to 2004.
December 22, 2006... The 20 most productive authors (in terms of number of articles authored) were identified across three major autism-specific journals (Autism: An International Journal of Research and Practice, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental...

Calendar.
December 22, 2006... * JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 2, 2007 Division on Developmental Disabilities (CEC) 10th International Conference on Cognitive Disabilities/Mental Retardation, Autism, and Other Developmental Disabilities. Kona, HI. Contact: e-mail:...