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Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Social narratives (e.g., Social Stories™) are common antecedent-based interventions promoted for the purposes of improving prosocial behaviors and reducing challenging behavior for children with and without disabilities. Although they are commonly prescribed and used, their effectiveness has almost exclusively been assessed for children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Intervention
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Fleischmann, A. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2004
The purpose of this study was to mobilize the stories of parents of autistic children as a prism for understanding the adjustment process. To do so, I qualitatively analyzed 20 personal stories by parents of children diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that those parents published on the Internet. I analyzed the narratives from…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Parents, Internet, Identification
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O'Neill, Meena; Jones, Robert S. P. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997
Discusses sensory-perceptual abnormalities in people with autism from published firsthand accounts and existing psychological research evidence. A range of abnormalities, including hyper- and hyposensitivity, sensory distortion and overload, and multichannel receptivity and processing difficulties, are described and the limitations of clinical and…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Perceptual Impairments, Personal Narratives