10/30- Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Question 1

What is the timeline of treatment approaches?

Answer 1

• 1943- Kanner describes Early Infantile Autism
• 1967- “Refrigerator Mothers” counted
• 1970- Pragmatics Revolution- Bates (IMPORTANT)
• 1970- Sensory Integration
• 1981- Lovaas “Me Book”
• 1986- Functional Assessment of Behavior- Durand
• 1990- Theory of Mind
• 1990- Facilitated Communication
• 1994- Let me Hear Your Voice- ABA follow-up study

Question 2

What is the Pragmatics Revolution?

Answer 2

• began the study of language and communication within social context
• pragmatics studied for the first time
• focused on the child being an active learner instead of being under control of the teacher
• follow child’s intentional focus
• communication goals was developed based on the child’s current abilities and learning strengths and needs as opposed to using the same goals for all children
• focus was developing meaningful and function communication

Question 3

True of False

The “Me Book” was the gold standard for the discrete trial approach?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Why should facilitated communication treatment not good to use?

Answer 4

• kids has severe motor problems to be able to communicate
• facilitator was to study the child’s fingers on a keyboard
• child was communicating via the keyboard at a high level, even low IQs. Even children who were verbal and high IQs.
• it was discovered that the facilitator was actually guiding the child’s hands to type and this was being done subconsciously

Question 5

What does DT-TB stand for?

Answer 5

Discrete trial-Traditional Behavior

Question 6

What does SP-D

Answer 6

Social Pragmatic- Development

Question 7

When it comes to the continuum of ABA Intervention Approaches, what is middle ground referred to as?

Answer 7

It draws strategies from both sides (DT-TB and SP-D) depending on what the activity is.

Question 8

What approaches fall under DT-TB?

Answer 8

• Lovaas
• Isolated Skills
• Repetitive practice
• Confusion with ABA

Question 9

What type of style is DT-TB?

Answer 9

• Directive

- greater demands on child to respond, behave and communicate in a certain manner

Question 10

What type of style is SP-D

Answer 10

• follow child’s lead
• provide minimal direction from the communicative partner
• minimal instruction or intrusion

Question 11

What type of style are middle ground approaches?

Answer 11

• selective use of directive or facilities elements depending on the activity
• depends on the child’s ability depending not he activity demands
• child’s emotional regulatory status

Question 12

What approach would you use for hand washing?

Answer 12

DT-TB because there might need to be more physical instruction/motor teaching

Question 13

What approach would you use for fostering social communication during hand washing?

Answer 13

Less directive approach, maybe SP-D or middle ground approaches

Question 14

What approaches fall under the middle ground approaches?

Answer 14

• Modified Discrete Trail
• TEACCH
• PRT
• RDI

Question 15

What approaches fall under the SP-D approaches?

Answer 15

• SCERTS
• More Than Words
• Greenspan Floor Time

Question 16

Which approaches rely more on repetitive practice, and isolated skills?

Answer 16

DT-TB/Traditional-Behavioral approaches

Question 17

What type of approaches rely more on naturally occurring events and activities as well as a greater emphasis on interpersonal interaction?

Answer 17

SP-D

Question 18

How is DT-TB defined?

Answer 18

single teaching unit

instruction- response- consequence

Question 19

Left off at 18:59 card number 4

Answer 19

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