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Full-Text Articles in Education
Transitioning Children With Autism From One-On-One Discrete-Trial Settings To Special Education Classrooms, Jennifer L. Freeman
Transitioning Children With Autism From One-On-One Discrete-Trial Settings To Special Education Classrooms, Jennifer L. Freeman
Dissertations
The goal of an early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) program is to teach each child the skills necessary to make meaningful progress in less-restrictive environments (Fox, Dunlap & Crushing, 2002). However, few studies have detailed the steps necessary for a “successful” transition into these educational settings. We transitioned two children, who received 20 hours a week of one-on-one discrete-trial therapy and attended a half-day special education pre-school classroom, to a full-time educational setting. With the goal of aiding each during his/her transition, this study used the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) (Sundberg, 2008), particularly the barriers and …
Gifted With Asperger's Syndrome (Twice-Exceptional): The Difference Post-Graduate Certifications Held Make On Early Childhood Teachers' Knowledge, Terry Wright
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
Twice-exceptional students (Gifted with Asperger’s Syndrome) can be difficult for even the experienced teacher. Robust knowledge of Asperger’s Syndrome and Giftedness prepares teachers to meet the needs of these often-unidentified students. The purpose of this cross sectional survey design research was to study how post-graduate certifications held (dependent variable) affected early childhood teacher knowledge (independent variable) of Asperger’s Syndrome and Gifted/talented learner characteristics. From two large suburban school districts and small, private schools in Central Texas, 242 early childhood teachers (pre-k-second grade) participated in three online researcher created instruments entitled Teacher Knowledge of Asperger Characteristics, Teacher Knowledge of Gifted and …
Current Trends In Psychological And Educational Approaches For Training And Teaching Students With Autism In California, Trisha Sugita
Current Trends In Psychological And Educational Approaches For Training And Teaching Students With Autism In California, Trisha Sugita
Education Faculty Articles and Research
Within the United States, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has seen a dramatic increase over the past twenty years. As the prevalence rate of ASD increases, an increased need for expertise in the field of education has become apparent. Psychological and educational practices for training and teaching students with ASD continue to evolve in California however, a significant gap between theory and practice remains. This article provides a historical perspective of ASD and its prevalence rates. In addition, this article examines the current shifts in teacher training and provides an overview of evidence-based strategies to support students with ASD.
An Evaluation Of Fading Procedures On The Effects Of Children Using Activity Schedules To Play On The Playground Appropriately, Kylee Lewis
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Children with autism often have difficulty playing appropriately and independently. Activity schedules have been shown to be effective at teaching children with autism to play. Some individuals with autism engage in repetitive behaviors, especially on the playground. A previous study showed that activity schedules were effective at reducing repetitive or patterned behavior on the playground by teaching three students with autism to play appropriately and independently. This study investigated the effects of fading procedures on teaching independent and varied play skills to young children with autism during free play on the playground.
Acquisition Of Picture Exchange-Based Vs. Signed Mands And Implications To Teach Functional Communication Skills To Children With Autism, Sang S. Nam Ph.D, Young S. Hwang Ph.D
Acquisition Of Picture Exchange-Based Vs. Signed Mands And Implications To Teach Functional Communication Skills To Children With Autism, Sang S. Nam Ph.D, Young S. Hwang Ph.D
The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship
A literature review was conducted to describes important concepts involved in functional analysis of verbal behavior as well as to evaluates empirical research findings on acquisition of picture exchange-based vs. signed mands to suggest instructional implications for teachers and therapists to teach functional communication skills to children with autism. Research findings indicate that children with autism acquire picture exchange responses to mand for reinforcing items more easily and rapidly than signed responses. There is also a strong relation between motor imitation, matching skills and sign language acquisition. It is suggested that both motor imitation and matching skills be examined to …
Stage For Success, Sarah Caldwell Hancock
Stage For Success, Sarah Caldwell Hancock
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Drama therapy students work with kids on autism spectrum at summer camps.
فاعلية برنامج تدريبي مقترح قائم على أنشطة اللعب الجماعي في تنمية المهارات الاجتماعية لدى الأطفال ذوي التوحد في امارة أبوظبي –دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة- (دراسة حالة), ميرفت محمد عبده أحمد مشهور
فاعلية برنامج تدريبي مقترح قائم على أنشطة اللعب الجماعي في تنمية المهارات الاجتماعية لدى الأطفال ذوي التوحد في امارة أبوظبي –دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة- (دراسة حالة), ميرفت محمد عبده أحمد مشهور
Theses
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a proposed training program Based on playgroup activities on developing the social skills of a child with autism attending one of the private schools in Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). The study sample consisted of an eleven-year-old child with autism. He was integrated at Emirates Private School- Abu Dhabi in the Fourth Grade. In order to answer the questions of the study, the researcher used the following tools, after checking their reliability and validity: a form to collect data about the study sample, a social interaction list developed by the researcher as …
An Exploration Of Student Anxiety And The Degree Of Aba Services, Alexis Stavros
An Exploration Of Student Anxiety And The Degree Of Aba Services, Alexis Stavros
Theses and Dissertations
Children diagnosed with Autism may present numerous internalizing and externalizing behaviors. In order to help decrease problematic behaviors and promote positive behaviors, early intervention programs are often put into place. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a method of intervention based in operant conditioning, and is used to alter socially useful behavior (Kearney, A. 2008). Although ABA can be effective in decreasing problematic behavior, it could be argued that children diagnosed with Autism exhibit a range of symptoms that may be more internalizing in nature, and not particularly responsive to ABA (Herbert, Brandsma, 2002: Fryling, 2011). Research states that 84% of …
Two Models For Evaluating Evidence-Based Practices In Autism, Jennifer Lee Suppo Ed.D.
Two Models For Evaluating Evidence-Based Practices In Autism, Jennifer Lee Suppo Ed.D.
Journal of Research Initiatives
The search for evidence-based practices within the realm of autism has continued to be at the forefront of autism discussions in education. The author describes two models, CEC Practice Study Manual (2008) and the National Standards Report (National Autism Center, 2009), for evaluating interventions as evidence-based practices (EBP) in autism, and compares and contrasts their features. The author applies the National Standards Report model, as it is the most frequently used model when evaluating EBP’s, in an analysis of two interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that are known to be EBPs, and applies the same model in …
Frustration And Task Avoidance In Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Lauren A. Vivar
Frustration And Task Avoidance In Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Lauren A. Vivar
South Florida Education Research Conference
Frustration and task avoidance is seen often in classrooms that have students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of explicitly taught strategies for properly coping with frustration.
Initiation Of Communication In Students With Autism, Jennifer Sauer
Initiation Of Communication In Students With Autism, Jennifer Sauer
South Florida Education Research Conference
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Tracing With Dots As A Strategy To Teach Writing To Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Yanirys Rios
Tracing With Dots As A Strategy To Teach Writing To Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Yanirys Rios
South Florida Education Research Conference
Developing preschoolers’ control of the muscles of their hands is known as fine motor skills (Huffman & Fortenberry, 2011). This skill enables young children to make accurate movements required for drawing and writing. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of connecting dots intervention to improve the ability to trace letters in students with autism spectrum disorder.
A Case Study Of An Office Of Disability Support Services In Higher Education For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Bunnie Loree Claxton
A Case Study Of An Office Of Disability Support Services In Higher Education For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Bunnie Loree Claxton
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to identify the factors that impact learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at a university in central Virginia. The theory guiding this study is disability theory as it seeks to explain the limitations placed on persons with disabilities. The central research question is: What factors of the disability support services impact learning in university students with ASD? The subquestions include: (a) How do students with ASD describe their experiences with the university’s disability support service offices? (b) How do university faculty describe their role in supporting students with ASD? (c) What factors …
Experimental Evaluation Of An Ipad-Based Augmentative And Alternative Communication Program For Early Elementary Children With Severe, Non-Verbal Autism, Ariana Azzato
Open Access Theses
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment package including a modified protocol of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) implemented via an autism-specific iPad application. A multiple probe design (Horner & Baer, 1978) was replicated across four individuals with severe, non-verbal autism to investigate effects on requesting skills, natural speech production, and social-communicative behaviors. Results suggest beneficial effects, if implemented with high fidelity. The largest effects were on the participants’ requesting skills. All four participants were able to consistently request for desired items by activating the tablet device, and this skill was maintained after …
A View Of Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jennifer Reynolds
A View Of Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jennifer Reynolds
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
Parents of children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encounter many stressors beyond the typical parenting pressures that parents of children without disabilities face. Along with the additional challenges, parents of children with ASD face complex needs that differ from parents of children with other types of disabilities. The purpose of this qualitative study was to consider the needs of parents (N = 10) with children with ASD served in a public school system in North Georgia through the framework of Maslow’s (1943) Theory of Human Motivation. A transcendental phenomenological design was used to provide a voice to parents of children …
An Analysis Of Due Process Hearings Involving Students With Significant Disabilities In Their Least Restrictive Environment, Wendy Seiter Nichol
An Analysis Of Due Process Hearings Involving Students With Significant Disabilities In Their Least Restrictive Environment, Wendy Seiter Nichol
Theses and Dissertations
This research analyzed all available hearings from 2013 to 2015 in a national database of due process hearings regarding placement issues and determinations of the least restrictive environment for individual students with significant disabilities. The main research question was whether parents/guardians and due process hearing officers sought placements for these children with significant disabilities that considered creatively and holistically a range of options rather than just a dialogue between already extant possible programmatic offerings. The research resulted in a description and taxonomy of the types of issues and factors arising in the hearings for students with significant disabilities from 2013 …
Comparing Video Modeling To Discrete Trial Teaching For Teaching Daily Living Skills, Nicole Angelina Gubernick
Comparing Video Modeling To Discrete Trial Teaching For Teaching Daily Living Skills, Nicole Angelina Gubernick
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of implementing video modeling to teach daily living skills to a fifteen year old boy who is diagnosed with autism. This was a single subject, repeated measures research design with the repeated measures being teeth brushing, making a sandwich, and doing the dishes. The daily living skills chosen were based upon a rating scale administered to the parents. Baseline data was collected for the three daily living skill tasks using task analysis probing. Once baseline data was collected, discrete trial teaching with implanted. Data was collected and the level of …
Using Theater To Heal And Grow, Trevor Davis Davis
Using Theater To Heal And Grow, Trevor Davis Davis
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Singing ninjas, mermaids, monkeys and dragons filled the center stage at a Manhattan, Kan., community arts center. The actors playing the monkeys hooted, hollered and jumped as audience members laughed and cheered during the entertaining performance.
For The Sake Of The Kids, Stephanie Jacques, Jennifer Tidball
For The Sake Of The Kids, Stephanie Jacques, Jennifer Tidball
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Faculty members at Kansas State University are leaping academic boundaries to help kids overcome disabilities.
Blazing Trails, Being Us: A Narrative Inquiry With Five High School Students With Autism Who Type To Communicate, Casey Lee Woodfield
Blazing Trails, Being Us: A Narrative Inquiry With Five High School Students With Autism Who Type To Communicate, Casey Lee Woodfield
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation chronicles the experiences of five high school students with autism who type to communicate as they navigate the terrain of high school, adolescence, and identity through collaboration and dialogue with one another, their school support team, and the inquirer (researcher). This study employs a multilayered approach to narrative inquiry to unravel and (re)present the students’ (co-inquirers) individual and collective stories as constructed through observation, performance, dialogue, and art. While acknowledging the importance of families and school personnel, the students’ storied lives and perspectives—as well their participation in constructing the inquiry process—are foregrounded to supplement research dominated by adult, …
Total Communication Methods For Preschool Children With Autism: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study Of Parent And Professional Perceptions, Leigh Beesley
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological study was to explore experiences of using a total communication system with preschoolers diagnosed with autism as explained by their parents and teachers. The research focused on the experience specifically relating to functional communication and social interactions. Determining resources that parents and teachers need that may have made the employment of the strategies more successful, was of importance to this study in order to determine implications, or future needed research. The participants in this study, determined by purposive sampling, included parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, and speech therapist located in an elementary school setting. The study …
A Comparison Of The Effects Of Peer Networks And Peer Video Modeling On Positive Social Interactions Performed By Young Children With Developmental Disabilities, Conrad Oh-Young
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A concern that parents of children with disabilities have is whether or not their offspring are able to interact and be accepted by children who do not have disabilities. Unfortunately children with developmental disabilities (DD) may experience difficulties when interacting with typically developing peers. One method of addressing this issue has been to ensure that children with DD receive instruction in the same school setting as their peers. However, simply attending the same school as children who are typically developing may not be enough. Hence the need for interventions such as peer network (PN) and peer video modeling (PVM), that …
An Analysis Of Variability Of Play Behavior With Preschool Children With Autism, Mary Katherine Endicott Harris
An Analysis Of Variability Of Play Behavior With Preschool Children With Autism, Mary Katherine Endicott Harris
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Children with autism often display repetitive, stereotypical movements with toys in lieu of appropriate play skills. Unlike typically developing children, they do not vary their play with toys. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether three preschoolers with autism would vary their play actions when exposed to a lag schedule of reinforcement and physical prompting procedure. All three participants demonstrated varied play actions with the lag schedule and prompting procedure in place. These behaviors maintained when a probe was conducted two weeks later in the absence of the lag schedule. Although responding was high in the 2-week …
Peer-Implemented Script Fading To Promote Play-Based Statements In Children With Autism, Jessie Rosdahl
Peer-Implemented Script Fading To Promote Play-Based Statements In Children With Autism, Jessie Rosdahl
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Teaching communication and social skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires systematic teaching and instruction. Teachers provide these interventions to multiple students and the efforts can be strenuous. In order to help relieve teachers, as well as provide a more efficient way to teach social skills, this study was conducted to assess the benefits of using peers as implementers and communication exchange partners for children with ASD. In this study, we used an intervention called script fading, a prompt procedure that provides children with ASD with an appropriate audio phrase, which they then repeat during play. This study …
An Exploration Of Perseverative Behaviors In Young Children With Autism, Madison M. Ralph
An Exploration Of Perseverative Behaviors In Young Children With Autism, Madison M. Ralph
Honors Theses
This study explored the interplay of stereotypical behaviors and social skills interventions in a clinical environment when stereotypy was not the focus of the interventions. A case study design was implemented to observe two participants that exhibited stereotypical and repetitive behaviors (SRBs) as well as the interventions that influenced these SRBs. Findings demonstrated prompting, positive reinforcement, and response interruption/redirection had a positive impact on shaping some SRBs but, as SRBs were not the focus of the interventions, other SRBs developed.
Savant Syndrome: A Review Of Research Findings, Yoora Jeon
Savant Syndrome: A Review Of Research Findings, Yoora Jeon
Culminating Projects in Special Education
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder featured by impaired social skills, communication abilities, restricted activities and repetitive behavior (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Among the individuals with autism, it is approximately estimated that 10% have autistic savant skills. The most common domains of savant skill are musical, numeracy, and artistic savant skill. After giving a basic overview of autism and savant syndrome, this starred paper reviewed studies of those three areas of savant skills. The purpose of this literature review is to investigate what research has been conducted to evaluate the performance of individuals with musical/numeracy/artistic savant skills. Theoretical Background of savant …
Teaching Children Who Have Difficulty Mastering Auditory Discriminations, Sarah Lichtenberger
Teaching Children Who Have Difficulty Mastering Auditory Discriminations, Sarah Lichtenberger
Dissertations
Simple and conditional visual and auditory discrimination repertoires are critical components of many skills necessary for daily functioning, including communication, academic, and daily-living skills (Green, 2001). When auditory discrimination is not under instructional stimulus control, it can result in delayed acquisition of new skills and limit academic progress. The purpose of this study was to teach auditory discrimination to children with autism who had little to no progress on classroom procedures that required auditory discrimination, such as selecting an object from an array when given the name of the object as the direction. Auditory discrimination was taught starting with teaching …
Understanding The Push-In/Pull-Out Method: Why Support Matters For Socialization, Christina L. Raiti
Understanding The Push-In/Pull-Out Method: Why Support Matters For Socialization, Christina L. Raiti
Senior Theses and Projects
My research combines qualitative and quantitative methods in order to answer: How do the social dynamics of children with autism change as they transition throughout the day from general ed to special ed settings in a Hartford public school? Findings are based upon coded observations of three third-grade students with autism for more than twenty hours in various classroom settings, and also thematic analysis of interviews with three of their classroom educators at the site in Hartford, Connecticut. The findings shows that students with autism are more likely to have positive physical and verbal interactions in structured environments rather than …
Exploring The Social Experiences Of College Students Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorders: Examining Neurodiversity On Campus, Monique N. Colclough
Exploring The Social Experiences Of College Students Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorders: Examining Neurodiversity On Campus, Monique N. Colclough
Educational Foundations & Leadership Theses & Dissertations
Research and discussion on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in education is longstanding, albeit almost exclusive to secondary students. Within less than ten years the number of secondary students who were receiving special education services for autism doubled, two percent of which later self-identified at 2yr and 4yr institutions upon enrollment. This phenomenological study explores the experiences of college students who have autism spectrum disorders, focusing on the social experiences that impact college persistence and retention. The following research questions were guide to this study: what are the social experiences of college students who have autism? What role(s) do …
Understanding Parental Engagement In Hispanic Mothers Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Application Of A Process-Model Of Cultural Competence, Elizabeth Ijalba
Understanding Parental Engagement In Hispanic Mothers Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Application Of A Process-Model Of Cultural Competence, Elizabeth Ijalba
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
In this study the LEARN process-model of cultural competence was applied with three Hispanic immigrant mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Two main arguments were investigated. 1) The influence of cultural beliefs on mothers’ engagement in their children’s education at home. 2) The inclusion of mothers’ cultural beliefs about disability in education plans for their children. This study was contextualized through a review of the literature on cultural competence and traditional cultural beliefs on understanding disability in many Hispanic immigrant families. Results showed that mothers’ parental beliefs about disability influenced how they engaged in their children’s education. Their …