Contextually Mediated Practice

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Contextually Mediated Practice for Autism

Contextually Mediated Practice for Behavioral Issues

Best Practice, Better Outcomes: How to write Measurable Behavioral Objectives, Goals & Plans: for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

This will take you through the information on how to write measurable behavioral objectives.  Please ask questions in the comment section.

This series of postings will provide you with the fundamental tools and skills to write individualized and effective measurable behavioral objectives for either mental health or developmental disabilities.

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Additional information on writing measurable behavioral objectives

This series of postings will provide additional information on writing measurable behavioral objective.
Remember, the best objectives are individualized and written specifically for the individual and the situation.  You will get much better outcomes by learning and following the process, even though it takes a little more time and effort, writing individualized objectives rather than using canned objectives (which typically do not meet rule).

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Curriculum, Performance, Operational, Instructional, Objectives: Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Free Powerpoint

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Treatment: Autism & Behavioral Disabilities/Disorders
http://www.bestoutcomes.blogspot.com/

Educational Objectives: Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Free Powerpoint

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Treatment: Autism & Behavioral Disabilities/Disorders
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Enabling Objectives: Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Free Powerpoint

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Treatment: Autism & Behavioral Disabilities/Disorders
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Outcomes: Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Free Powerpoint

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Treatment: Autism & Behavioral Disabilities/Disorders
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Learning Objectives: Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Free Powerpoint

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Treatment: Autism & Behavioral Disabilities/Disorders
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Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives Powerpoint

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Writing Measurable Behavioral Objectives PowerPoint/Video

“Story-based interventions have been found to be effective with target skills and behaviors, including:”

¨     “Interpersonal skills

¨     Communication skills

¨     Social behavior

¨     Choice and play skills

¨     Understanding emotions

¨     Mealtime skills

¨     Self-regulation

¨     Problem behavior”

Evidence-Based Practice and Autism in the Schools

¨     http://www.nationalautismcenter.org/pdf/NAC%20Ed%20Manual_FINAL.pdf

¨     “Story-based interventions are often used with students who have acquired reading and comprehension skills.  However, if a child has strong listening comprehension skills, you might read the story to her instead of having her read it independently.”

¨     Evidence-Based Practice and Autism in the Schools

¨     http://www.nationalautismcenter.org/pdf/NAC%20Ed%20Manual_FINAL.pdf

“Social Stories and Modeling”

¨     “Modeling is a powerful teaching strategy with children with some form of autism. A social story is a story that depicts some particular social skill being acted out (or modeled).

¨     A good social story will focus on a particular social situation or interaction. A trip to the store, meeting a new person, or going to the school lunchroom with your class - these are all good examples of situations a social story might focus on. The story serves a number of purposes.”

¨     Read more at Suite101

¨     http://www.suite101.com/content/social-stories-for-autistic-kids-a45197

¨     Stories are written and either read or told, Modeling is acted out; however, the difference can sometimes be somewhat blurred. 

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“Story-based interventions have been shown:”

¨     “To be effective for children aged 6-14 years

¨     To produce favorable outcomes for individuals with autism and Aspergers Syndrome”

¨     Evidence-Based Practice and Autism in the Schools

¨     http://www.nationalautismcenter.org/pdf/NAC%20Ed%20Manual_FINAL.pdf

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“When using a story-based intervention, use written descriptions for:”

¨     “The Target Behavior

¨     The situations in which the behavior should occur

¨     The likely outcome of performing the behavior, which often includes a description of another person’s perspective”

Evidence-Based Practice and Autism in the Schools

¨     http://www.nationalautismcenter.org/pdf/NAC%20Ed%20Manual_FINAL.pdf

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Parenting 101: Joint Attention and children with Autism

¨     Joint Attention is parenting 101, a basic skill for parents to develop with children with Autism as well as typically developing children.

¨     Engage with children. 

¨     Show interest in what they are interested in (within appropriate boundaries, i.e. don’t let your kids have pot parties let alone go with them).

¨     Important for all infants, toddlers, and even teens (spouses too).   (Works much better with teens if you’ve been doing it all along.)

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Effectiveness of Training Parents to Teach Joint Attention in Children with Autism

¨     Parents were trained to increase their joint attention bids using behavior analytic techniques to facilitate appropriate responding.

¨     Parents effectively employed joint attention intervention techniques.

¨     As parent joint attention bids increased, children's responses increased.

¨     Children's joint attention initiations also increased, even though they were not direct targets of intervention.

¨     Findings suggest that parent behaviors during and after intervention impact generalization and maintenance of behavior changes.

¨     http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ767169&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ767169

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How to Teach/Develop Joint Attention (for children with autism)

The P.L.A.Y. Project and DIR/Floortime provide great instruction and opportunities for developing joint attention.

¨     There are many ways to teach and help a child develop joint attention.

Joint attention training for children with autism using behavior modification procedures

¨     The following target behaviors were included in the intervention:

¨     1) Responding to showing, pointing, and gaze shifting of adult;

¨     2) Coordinated gaze shifting (i.e., coordinated joint

¨     attention); and

¨     3) Pointing (with the purpose of sharing, not requesting).

http://www.thelearninglane.com/documents/jointattention4.pdf

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Something a little different in looking at Joint Attention

¨     Imagine a great magician. 

¨     How do they do it???

¨     One of the keys to a great magician is the ability to Share Attention; however, part of the trick is to get you to Share Attention where they determine.

¨     This is a form of Joint Attention

Whithout shared, directed, joint attention it would be very difficult for many magicians to perform their magic.

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Joint Attention is NOT!

¨     Hand leading (taking  someone by the hand to lead them to an desired object or action i.e. to obtain juice or opening a door).  (There is no communicative intent or shared attention, you are no more than a tool to accomplish the goal.)

¨     Pointing to label (pointing and saying what something is).

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What is Joint Attention?

“Joint Attention is the process of sharing one’s experience of observing an object (person, animal) or event, by following gaze or pointing gestures.
It is critical for social development, language acquisition, cognitive development…”

http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/jt_attn.html

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The P.L.A.Y. Project®

While Denver is considered Evidence Based Practice, P.L.A.Y. is considered Emerging Practice, with some good preliminary data showing significant improvements.

P.L.A.Y. is a variation on an Evidence Based Practice DIR®/Floortime™ http://www.icdl.com/dirFloortime/overview/index.shtml

“Parents were encouraged to deliver 15 hours per week of 1:1 interaction.  Pre/post ratings of videotapes by blind raters using the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) showed significant increases … in child subscale scores.  Translated clinically, 45.5 percent of children made good to very good functional developmental progress.  There were no significant differences between parents in the FEAS subscale scores at either pre-or post-intervention and all parents scored at levels suggesting they would be effective in working with their children.  Overall satisfaction with PPHC was 90 percent.  Average cost of intervention was $2500/ year.  Despite important limitations, this pilot study of The PLAY Project Home Consulting model suggests that the model has potential to be a cost-effective intervention for young children with autism.

An in-depth research program of this model is currently in progress and going very well.

http://www.playproject.org/

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