Texte remanié de : Dissertation : neuphilologische Fakultät : Universität Heidelberg : 1984. / Résumé en français. Bibliogr. des oeuvres de M. Brion p. 425-441. Bibliogr. p. 413-424. Index.

Th.--Hist.--Helsinki, 1985. / Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. pp. 320-327.

We conducted a contingency analysis to evaluate if a sequential relation between social initiations and positive social responses increased for both therapists and children with autism following a conditioned reinforcement procedure. Participants included child-therapist dyads, which were previously identified as having low rapport. These dyads were observed prior to and following an intervention designed to establish therapists' social behavior as a reinforcer. Sessions consisted of unstructured play between the therapist and child. Results from a Yule's Q analysis show that both the child and adult positive responding to the others' social initiations increased following the intervention. Findings highlight the reciprocal effects of therapist-child interactions as well as the effectiveness of establishing social attention as a reinforcer via an operant discrimination training procedure.

Le développement de systèmes mécaniques, toujours plus performants et légers, demande l’optimisation continue des matériaux utilisés ainsi que leurs traitements. Dans le domaine des transmissions de puissance, la nitruration gazeuse apporte une hausse significative des durées de vie en fatigue des pièces fortement sollicitées. Alors que le rôle des gradients de propriétés mécaniques générés sur la résistance en fatigue est reconnu, l’influence de cette microstructure nitrurée sur les mécanismes de plasticité ou de microplasticité menant à de l’endommagement puis à l’initiation d’une fissure reste relativement méconnue. Ce travail de thèse concerne exclusivement la nitruration de l’acier de nuance 33CrMoV12-9, particulièrement utilisée dans les roulements et engrenages des industries aéronautiques et navales. Les propriétés mécaniques liées aux phénomènes menant à l’initiation de fissures en fatigue à grand nombre de cycles ont, tout particulièrement, été étudiées. Les propriétés mécaniques, comme le module d’élasticité, la dureté, la limite d’élasticité ou encore les contraintes résiduelles sont déterminées à plusieurs échelles, de celles de la microstructure à celles plus macroscopiques. Des observations in-situ ou post-mortem des couches nitrurées sollicitées jusqu’à l’endommagement ayant pour but d’estimer l’influence de la microstructure sur les hétérogénéités de déformations, les phénomènes de microplasticité et les mécanismes d’endommagement correspondants n’ont pas permis d’identifier clairement des mécanismes d’initiations de fissures. Pour ces essais, une éprouvette nitrurée à cœur représentative de la couche nitrurée a été développée. Cet outil expérimental a permis d’effectuer des essais simples de sollicitations des microstructures et ainsi déterminer des caractéristiques élastiques, d’écrouissage et de tenue en fatigue. Enfin, il a été démontré que les propriétés mesurées comme le module d’élasticité dépendent de l’échelle d’observation, des moyens et des méthodes utilisés. / Design of high-performance and lighter mechanical systems needs a perpetual work on materials used. In the power transmission field, gaseous nitriding thermochemical treatment enhances significantly the life-cycle of the parts which are higher stressed on the surface. While the contribution of the mechanical property gradients due to the treatment on the fatigue life is well-known, the microstructure effects on the (micro-)plasticity mechanisms remains undetermined. This work concerns exclusively the nitrided 33CrMoV12-9 graded steel, used for gears and bearings in the naval and aeronautical industry. It aims particularly at defining mechanical properties linked to crack initiation mechanisms during high-cycle fatigue. Properties such as Young modulus, hardness, yield stress and fatigue limits are looked at several scales, from microstructural ones to hardened case one. In-situ and post-mortem investigation on loaded and damaged nitrided layers leads to estimating the microstructural influence on local deformations, microplasticity and damage but no particular mechanisms were found. Special fully-nitrided parts were designed to perform the experiments. This tool helps to carry out simple loadings and measure the strain-hardening curve and fatigue limits. Finally, it as been attested that measured properties depend on scales, means and methodology.

Peer mediated interventions have been effective in teaching academic and social skills to students with disabilities. The present study assesses the effectiveness of students with autism spectrum disorder serving as the tutor and tutee. Four peer mediators and four students with autism spectrum disorder used technology and the simultaneous prompting procedure to teach acquisition of social studies vocabulary. Results indicate that both students with and without autism spectrum disorder effectively delivered instruction using technology and all students learned a portion of the vocabulary taught by a same-aged peer.

Texte remanié de: Thèse--Anthropologie--Toulouse--EHESS, 2004. / Bibliogr. p. 281-299.

The purpose of this study was to implement pivotal response training (PRT) strategies paired with constant time delay (CTD) to teach an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID) to self-initiate through question asking. A multiple probe across behaviors design was used to evaluate effectiveness of implementation. Results show that this naturalistic intervention is effective for some questions, while other questions need to be taught in more contrived scenarios.

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Indicators of quality early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) include comprehensive interventions, adequately trained staff, high rates of effective instruction delivery, happy interactions between children and their teachers, and socially valid outcomes. When these are in place, high quality EIBI is more likely to increase progress that children with autism make during treatment. When not in place, progress is not as likely, as rapid, or as meaningful. To date, there is limited research regarding the correlation between these indicators of high-quality EIBI and the degree to which their effects are meaningful to direct consumers. The purpose of this methodological study was to compare direct, quantitative measures of teaching interactions (child initiations, teacher initiations, child affect, teacher affect) with qualitative measures (stakeholder ratings of teacher effectiveness, amount of opportunities for interaction and interest in the child) of teaching interactions to determine what sets the occasion for expert stakeholders to describe a teaching interaction as effective, quality therapy.