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Providing Implementation Supports to Intensify Instruction in an Autism Classroom
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Dyer, Kathleen; Redpath, Caroline – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
This study evaluated whether an implementation support package using collaborative goal setting, nondirective consultation, feedback, and reinforcement would result in an increase in the implementation of planned speech and language programs in a classroom for students with autism spectrum disorders. Additional measures were collected to assess…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Students with Disabilities
Reducing Transition Latency and Transition-Related Problem Behavior in Children by Altering the Motivating Operations for Task Disengagement
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Sullivan, William E.; Martens, Brian K.; Morley, Allison J.; Long, Stephanie J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
Activity schedules, guided compliance, and differential reinforcement are often used to reduce transition-related problem behavior in children with autism. One potential way to increase the effectiveness of these procedures when transitioning children from preferred to nonpreferred activities is to alter the motivating operations for…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
Discrete Trials Teaching
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Ghezzi, Patrick M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
The advantages of emphasizing discrete trials "teaching" over discrete trials "training" are presented first, followed by a discussion of discrete trials as a method of teaching that emerged historically--and as a matter of necessity for difficult learners such as those with autism--from discrete trials as a method for laboratory research. The…
Descriptors: Autism, Guidelines, Educational Practices, Educational Indicators