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Self Management, Autism, and Skills of Social Interaction Questions

Rest Of The Story by Julie Pawlak and Helen Klein. While the article is instrumental at addressing the inherent importance of bri...

The Value of Informal Assessments in Private Therapeutic Practice

diagnose even under the best conditions. This is because there is no totally objective test for autism; a diagnosis requires a var...

Visual Prompts and Educating Autistic Students

Introduction Autism is a pervasive...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

When a Child is Diagnosed with Autism

or anything else they can think of to explain away the event. After the denial is no longer possible, anger sets in. This stage mi...

Autism Interventions

In fifteen pages this paper considers such issues as language skills and communications in a discussion of what can be accomplishe...

Aspects of Autism and Children

In ten pages this research paper defines autism and then considers it in terms of etiology, diagnosis, and effective treatment app...

Children and Autism

In some cases, aggressive or self-injurious behavior may result (1996). Autism is a developmental disability that ordinarily appe...

Musical Therapy Benefits and Autism

In six pages autism symptoms are first considered before a discussion of using music therapy as a beneficial treatment for childre...

Reading and Autism

In a paper consisting of ten pages the correlation between reading abilities and autism is considered by way of reviews of current...

Applied Behavioral Analysis and Autism

In five pages UCLA's Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas's applied behavioral analysis or Discrete Trial Training is discussed within the context o...

Autistic Students

some of the treatments used with autistic students. Autism - Characteristics The spectrum of autism...

Autism Instruction

in the classroom. This can include everything from modifications made to the general environment to modifications in the instruct...

Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants

This 3 page paper covers the early diagnosis of 16 month old infants with autism spectrum disorder. This paper covers the diagnosi...

Autism Assessment of a Child

This paper discusses 2 informal and 2 formal assessments instruments that pertain to the diagnosis of autism. Three pages in lengt...

Mamawawa, Sleep, Drug Addiction and Other Issues

the set point assumption: they are inconsistent with eating pressures as they have evolved; predictions have not been confirmed; a...

Picture Book on Autism

This book review is on Amanda D. Tourville's My Friend Has Autism, which is illustrated by Kristin Sorra. An informative, sensit...

Temple Grandin and Autism Spectrum Disorders

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at autism spectrum disorders. Insights from Temple Grandin are cited. Paper uses one ...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Effective Education Strategies

2000). Diagnosing Autism Autism is not a disorder that can be easily diagnosed through some simple process such as a blood ...

Aspects of Biopsychology

suffer from sensory or motor deficits that cause this condition. If, for example, there are lesions in the right hemisphere, the i...

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN AUTISM

Much like autism itself, there are a wide variety of communication skills among children with autism. Some are able to carry on st...

The Vaccine Debate

for their children, there are older diseases cropping up again. There have been whopping cough outbreaks for example in pockets of...

Nursing Case Management/Autism

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

Autism and the Vaccination Scare

fact, thousands of families have become convinced over the years that certain vaccines given during infancy are a causative factor...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Autistic Children's Education and Pivotal Response Teaching

with autism. "The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of relationship-focused interventions, such as pivota...

Autism: Research-Based Instruction

limited reinforcement repertoire, short attention span, distraction, slower learning, difficulty grasping abstract concepts, poor ...

Autism Treatment Approaches

Treating autism is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and includes program studies and strategies including behaviora...

Teaching The Autistic Child To Read

sequence. They continue this process until all cards have been placed in proper order. Checking for understanding Teacher discuss...