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Psychology

James Madison University

2012

School psychology

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Supporting A Parent Driven Video Self Modeling Intervention For A Student With Autism, Lindsey Visbaras May 2012

Supporting A Parent Driven Video Self Modeling Intervention For A Student With Autism, Lindsey Visbaras

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a parent implemented video self modeling intervention for a middle school student with autism. The targeted behaviors included slowing the rate of the student’s eating and reducing the number of times the student touched her food with her hands during a meal. A series of parent interviews and home visits were conducted in order to collect data about the parents’ experience of involvement in the intervention and to help ensure intervention integrity. A parent training manual was provided as a resource. Qualitative data collected through parent interviews …


Validity Of The Paths Student Evaluation As A Universal Screener: Utilization Within A Social-Emotional Response To Intervention Framework, Emily Anne Smithson May 2012

Validity Of The Paths Student Evaluation As A Universal Screener: Utilization Within A Social-Emotional Response To Intervention Framework, Emily Anne Smithson

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

Student mental health is essential to academic functioning, with social-emotional competency being a specific area that is related to student success. A relatively new approach for addressing students’ social-emotional competencies is Response to Intervention (RTI). Despite being widely utilized in the academic domain, a limited amount of research has been conducted on RTI in the social-emotional domain. The research that does exist lacks a standard approach for universal screening and identification of at-risk students. To address these shortcomings and the limitations of a public school system’s implementation of RTI, the current study will investigate the validity of using the Promoting …