Research summaries for autism therapy: prompt

definition of prompt: Giving instructions or coaching to help a child give the correct response when the initial response was not correct.
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Effects of Modified Milieu Therapy Intervention on the Social Communicative Behaviors of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Summarized Nov 11, 2010

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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Naturalistic Observations of Elicited Expressive Communications of Children with Autism: An Analysis of Teacher Instructions, Summarized Aug 10, 2010

Verbal prompt and modeling may be useful in eliciting communication in low verbal and nonverbal students.

The purpose of this study was to collect data on how children with severe autism communicate in the classroom. The author found that even though the 32 students were non-verbal or had few words, they did communicate in the classroom. They did this rarely (about once every six minutes). The children with the most severe autism spoke the fewest words. Almost all of the teachers were able to prompt communication from the students.

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Increasing Independence in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of Three Focused Interventions, Summarized May 4, 2010

Interventions such as self-monitoring, video modeling, and individual work systems may help children with autism to be more independent.

While autism therapies may teach skills to children with autism, often the children depend on adult support in order to do these skills. Even people with high-functioning autism may rely a lot on adult prompts and feedback. The fact that many children and adults with autism cannot function by themselves means that they have poorer outcomes. Many interventions for children with autism focus on helping children to function by themselves. This article describes things that prevent people with autism from working by themselves and three interventions that may promote independence.

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Treatment of Food Selectivity in a Young Child with Autism, Summarized Mar 16, 2010

Therapeutic feeding intervention may increase the number and variety of foods eaten by a child with autism.

This case study describes feeding intervention with a five your child with autism who was on the gluten-free casein-free (GFCF) diet. The treatment package focused on four new food items. The boy learned to eat GFCF pizza, GFCF waffle, apple, and french fries. He often said no when asked to try a new food. And at times, he left therapy sessions when hand-over-hand prompts were used.

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Synonyms for prompt include: prompts
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