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81	Promoting daily living skills for adolescents with autism spectrum disorders via parent delivery of video prompting on the iPad Unknown Date (has links) Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects one out of every 68 children in the United States. The disorder is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication, social interaction, and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interest, or activities that together limit and impair everyday functioning. Research has shown that the use of visual resources, such as video modeling procedures, can support individuals with ASD to acquire and maintain a variety of daily living skills leading to enhanced levels of independence. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection Autism in adolescence Parents of autistic children Social skills in adolescence Visual programming (Computer science)
82	Increasing Language Use in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Unknown Date (has links) Research has demonstrated that higher levels of parent language use is correlated with later language use and intellectual development of their children. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display deficits in social and communication skills. They also demonstrate repetitive and restrictive behaviors or interests. These behavioral deficits and excesses may contribute negatively to language development, as well as parent and child social interactions, and communication exchanges. The current study used a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline design to evaluate the effectiveness of behavior skills training (BST) and on-going graphical and verbal feedback on increasing parent language use and child words and utterances. Results of this study demonstrated that BST with on-going feedback was effective in increasing parent language use and child words and utterances above baseline levels for all four parent-child dyads. The dissertation concludes with recommendations for future research. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Language. Parents of autistic children. Autistic children--Language. Autism spectrum disorders--Treatment. Language disorders in children. Food supply--Globalization.
83	Autism and family functioning: The role of parental coping Vargas, Liliana 01 January 2006 (has links) The present study employed a family systems approach to investigate the effects of level of autism severity on family functioning as mediated by parental coping. Participants were mothers of children with autism who were volunteers in an ongoing research program conducted within a university-based treatment center (N=146). Gilliam Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition (GARS-2) scores were available for all of the children and, as part of the broader program, parents completed the Coping Scale for Adults, which assesses a range of coping styles, and the Family Environment Scale, which provides positive and negative indicators of family functioning. Data analyses indicated that nonproductive coping significantly mediated the relationship between level of autism severity and family cohesion and conflict. Results also suggested that level of autism severity was negatively related to family conflict. The study further examined the use of specific coping styles on family cohesion and conflict. Evaluation of findings suggest that parents who have a child diagnosed with severe autism may be employing maladaptive coping strategies, such as wishful thinking, blaming one's self, or avoiding the situation. Implications for intervention approaches for individuals working with families of children with autism are suggested. Autism in children Autistic children Family relationships Autistic children Care Adjustment (Psychology) Family assessment United States Adjustment (Psychology) Autism in children Autistic children Care Autistic children Family relationships Family assessment. Family, Life Course, and Society Psychology
84	The Development of a Three Minute Realtime Sampling Method to Measure Social Harmony during Interactions between Parents and their Toddlers with Autism Cunningham, Isabel L. 08 1900 (has links) Training parents of a child with autism to increase the frequency of their child's social behavior may improve the quality of parent-child interactions. The purpose of this methodological study was to develop a direct observation method for rapidly sampling social harmony between parents and their toddlers with autism during parent training interactions. The current study used a pre and post probe design, with benchmark comparisons to test the discriminability of the measurement protocol across two sets of data. The first set of data came from pre and post training videos from a parent training program for children with a diagnosis of autism or at risk for a diagnosis. The second set of data came from videos of typically developing toddlers and their parents. The results of the study show that the measurement system differentiated in the level of harmonious engagement between the benchmark sample and the sample including children diagnosed with autism. The results are discussed in the context of future directions and the utility of the measurement system for behavior analytic practices in parent training and other settings where rapport and complex interactional behaviors are an intervention priority. social engagement measurement behavior analysis applied behavior analysis autism harmonious engagement methodological study parent-child interaction parent-child engagement benchmark parent-toddler interaction parent-toddler engagement synchronous engagement joint engagement joint attention parent training Sunny Starts family connections project indices of happiness affect responsiveness caregiver responsiveness operational definition measurement system rapport relationship quality parent-child social engagement social dance early intensive behavioral intervention interobserver agreement Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Developmental Education, Special Parents of autistic children. Parent and child.

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