mt1: week 5 Flashcards
what are some success and failures of behavioral interventions in order for kids to learn words?
- behavioral interventions have been shown empiracallu to be successful for many symptoms of autism
- for young children 95% may acquire speech with behavioral interactions
- fewer older children acquire speech
- many in the nonresponding subpopulation(non talking) exhibit a single speech sound or word for all referents
what are orienting cues?
-intact basic processes of visual orientin among kids with autism even in a situation where attentional process are taxed by presence of distractors in the visual field
why are orienting cues good?
–use of orienting cues to facilitate discrimination learning in children with autism
If intervention using motivational procedures begins before a child is 3 years of age, the child has a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ chance of becoming verbal. • a) 25% • b) 50% • c) 70% • d) 95%
95%
what are the collateral effects of initiations?
o Decrease in disruptive behavior o Expand communicative function o Increase socialization o Support information seeking o Improve long-term outcomes
o What are the red flags for autism related to initiations?
♣ Difficulties with nonverbal initiations or initiations of joint attention: kids don’t point at objects or look at them
♣ Lower levels of paralinguistic initiations: kids don’t babble
♣ Difficulties in initiating attention seeking: kids do not try to attract attention by showing, giving, and pointing
♣ Difficulties with child-initiated eye contact: don’t listen to when parent calls name, lacks interest in what is happening in their environments
♣ Difficulty with imitation: poor imitation or lack of interest in imitating others
♣ Which of the following is NOT a deficit of autism related to initiations?
• a) Difficulties with joint attention
• b) Difficulties with completing non-preferred tasks
• c) Difficulties with nonverbal communication
• d) Difficulties with eye-contact
Difficulties with completing non-preferred tasks
