Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities articles from March 2006

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities archives from March 2006

Can Asperger's disorder be differentiated from autism using DSM-IV criteria?
March 22, 2006... Parents of 26 children with diagnoses of Asperger's disorder completed a symptom checklist to determine whether the children met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR; American...

The effects of presenting high-preference items, paired with choice, via computer-based video programming on task completion of students with autism.
March 22, 2006... Task completion time was substantially decreased for two middle school students with a diagnosis of moderate mental retardation and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) following the presentation of high-preference items and choice via a...

Activity schedules, computer technology, and teaching children with autism spectrum disorders.
March 22, 2006... A review of selected literature suggests that integrating multimedia computer supports with activity schedules can be an effective way to teach students to manage their work, play, and skill-building activities independently. Activity schedules...

Anxiety in adolescents with Asperger syndrome: negative thoughts, behavioral problems, and life interference.
March 22, 2006... This study examined anxiety symptoms in 29 adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS) aged 12 to 16 years, compared to 30 nonclinical (NC) adolescents and 34 adolescents with anxiety disorders (AD). Comorbidity between anxiety symptoms and...

Teaching a young child to appropriately gain attention of peers using a social story intervention.
March 22, 2006... The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a Social Story[TM] intervention in teaching a young child with hyperlexia to appropriately obtain the attention of his peers. The Social Story intervention consisted of verbal and...

Treatment integrity: a review of intervention studies conducted with children with autism.
March 22, 2006... The purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which behavioral intervention studies conducted with children diagnosed with autism operationally defined the independent variables (IVs) and evaluated treatment integrity (TI). The study...

Interventions for young children with autism: a synthesis of the literature.
March 22, 2006... The purpose of this study was to collect and examine intervention studies conducted with young children with autism. The synthesis looked at inferential studies reported between 1975 and April 2001 that included preestablished criteria such as,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 22, 2006... * APRIL 5-9, 2006 Council for Exceptional Children, Annual Conference and Expo. Salt Lake City, UT. Contact: 888/232-7733; e-mail: conteduc@cec.sped.org * APRIL 8-12, 2006 American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting....