Applied behavior analysis (ABA) techniques can be combined to help children replace aberrant behavior with functional communication skills.
The purpose of this study was to see if two therapies (milieu therapy and functional communication training) could be combined to help children replace bad behavior with language. The authors measured increased communication skills, decreased use of prompts, and decreased bad behavior in three young children with autism at home and in the classroom. They found that prompts decreased with the therapy. Communication increased and bad behavior decreased to almost zero with therapy. All of these skills were generalized to untrained settings and persons.
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A wonderful opportunity and resource for your ASD children and their families
Apr 9, 2012 by HorsesHelpHeartsHealUnique Oppertunity NDAR Study
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A wonderful opportunity and resource for your ASD children and their families
Apr 9, 2012 by HorsesHelpHeartsHealUnique Oppertunity NDAR Study
New research for alternative therapies for ASD children and their families. Allowing us to observe your family and your child in an setting that is safe and ASD friendly FREE to families in need and be a part of a National study that gathers research data on non-traditional therapies. We are offering a chance in a lifetime. Dr Annabel Agee PhD, and Equine Specialist, Lisenced reflexologist, and 20 yr counselor and alternative health, and child advocate will be accepting applications for ASD families to be a part of our National Study to provide data for NDAR. National Data for Autistic Reasearch. For coming to us and allowing us to document progress as we utilize exposure to a very calm very grounding expreience and interaction with trained equine therapy horses, you will be a part of an elite study which will hopefully be extremely valuable data for research on the effectiveness of alternative therapies for ASD children. What makes us really unique is that we aslo will be working with the entire family as a unit not just the child.
We are Horses Help Hearts Heal
Dr Annabel Agee Phd, LPC, NCC, MHSP,
Melissa Blaque, RCR, LRT, EALS, ES, DVLA, CASA
for more information please call: 865-206-7947 or 865-208-9555
Responding to movement therapy
Feb 15, 2012 by Whole MedicineHave readers of this forum heard of Interactive Metronome?
I have worked with numerous LD's. Because ASD has as a major component deficits in Executive Functioning, focus, attention and inhibition, I have had tremendous sucess with students on the Spectrum.
TJ, a 12 y/o male with ASD was still bed wetting and presented aggressive/assaultive behavior towards younger siblings and classmates/instructors.
JR was a 17 y/o male dx'd with Aspergers comorbid with ADD and ODD behavior. Due to gross/fine motor deficits and very low muscle tone he was anxious about any physical activities and exhibited poor self-concept
Please feel free to contact me if you want to learn more.
In Good Health!
Edward Jonathans BSc-IMC
Sensory-Motor Therapist
Corrections from the author of Following Ezra
Feb 8, 2012 by AnonymousThanks for featuring my book Following Ezra on your site. However, I need to correct some inaccuracies in the post.
1. Ezra was never nonverbal. LIke a lot of children on the autism spectrum, he was remote and difficult to connect with when he was 3 or 4 years old.But he always had language and never lost it.
2. It wasn't a therapist who suggested that we celebrate our son. At a difficult moment when he was 3 and my wife and I were having difficulty connecting with him, a therapist suggested we might need to "grieve for the child he didn't turn out to be." I realized I did not have the instinct to mourn -- nor did I think that would be the most helpful response to having such a child. Instead, I was committed to celebrating and loving the child I had. While of course we have made great efforts to help Ezra live the most complete and fulfilling life possible, the approach I describe in my book was never to try to fix or change my son, but rather to support and celebrate him
3. Ezra did not "recently" complete his first film, as you write. He created "Alphabet House" at age 12 after he had already made a few other films. He's now 16 and has made many more animated shorts since then. "Alphabet House" house was recently adapted as a children's book, published in October 2011. It's called "E-mergency!" and is coauthored by Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra. The Boston Globe named it one of the 10 best children's books of 2011.
4.Ezra's comments about autism and Judaism were not a response to a question. They were observations he made in the speech at his bar mitzvah, when he turned 13.
I would appreciate it if you'd fix these errors in the post. Many thanks,
Tom Fields-Meyer,
author,
"Following Ezra"