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1	Evaluating the Effects of the D.A.N.C.E Training System on Staff and Child Responding Morales, Erendira 12 1900 (has links) The purpose of this study was to evaluate and systematically replicate the effectiveness of the DANCE training for a staff member to be an effective change agent for the children in her care, while maintaining the organization's and family's values. The study was conducted in an organization that values and focuses on building rapport, avoids the use of coercive procedures, and teaches children in a caring and meaningful way. A multiple baseline across indoor and outdoor settings was used to evaluate the effects of the package. Results demonstrated that DANCE training was an effective procedure to teach a staff member how to increase teaching interactions. Harmonious engagement, instructional engagement and vocal approximations also increased while challenging behavior maintained at zero levels. Staff training Early intervention Autism Sunny Starts
2	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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Evaluating the Effects of the D.A.N.C.E Training System on Staff and Child Responding

The Development of a Three Minute Realtime Sampling Method to Measure Social Harmony during Interactions between Parents and their Toddlers with Autism