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Book Synopsis Developing Expressive Language in Verbal Students with Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method by : Soma Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Developing Expressive Language in Verbal Students with Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method written by Soma Mukhopadhyay and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written for a group of students with autism who have speech- enough to state requests or recite dialogs but not enough to discuss a topic.Verbal autistic students may have functional speech but it may be difficult for them to extract the right word/language at the right moment required. Expressive language may lie dormant and the student may need a way to bring these thoughts to the surface. Spelling a word may be easier approach for these students than saying a word or thought aloud.Also, many verbal students may experience a "road block" towards intentional-communication beyond the previously learned functional or social speech. If the speech is rote/habit/stim, people may be deceived by their speech and believe that the student cannot think beyond those uttered words.
Book Synopsis Developing Communication for Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method by : Soma Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Developing Communication for Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method written by Soma Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a step-by-step guide towards developing communication using RPM. Communication is an essential part of life and individuals with autism should not be left behind despite that their stimulations and motor skills may not respond in the same way as "typical "individuals. Success comes with practice and utilizing the steps of communication in this book will help teachers, students and parents. Using Soma's methods my son, Christopher, has not only been able to show how academically intelligent he is but he can now communicate his deeper thoughts and feelings in a way which means that others believe they are HIS words. -Sue Finnes-Mum to Christopher aged 14, Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom. Our son Lenny was nearly 40 when he met Soma. He has a great deal of trouble initiating language. For the first time, he was able to ask a question and also reveal to us how much he understood about his own life as well as the world around him. -Isabel and Larry Schwartz
Book Synopsis Understanding Autism Through Rapid Prompting Method by : Soma Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Understanding Autism Through Rapid Prompting Method written by Soma Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soma has dedicated her life to teaching her revolutionary Rapid Prompting Method to hundreds of autistic children and adults throughout the world. Somas work proves what many parents have suspected: that students with autism are capable of learning at academic levels previously thought unattainable. The power of an academic education improves the lives of all people, and the Rapid Prompting Method is the key to providing the gift of education and communication to students with autism. This groundbreaking book describes Somas innovative technique, and for the first time in print, offers parents and educators a step-by-step guide to implementing this life-changing teaching methodology.
Book Synopsis Growing Sensory Tolerance Using Rapid Prompting Method by : Soma Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Growing Sensory Tolerance Using Rapid Prompting Method written by Soma Mukhopadhyay and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism can isolate a person due to their sensory challenges. This book was written to help the autistic person adapt better to the environment using the sensory learning channels- vision, auditory and tactile which are the doors to the sensory world. The kinesthetic channel is the output of how our sensory channels assess the environment. Through RPM we know there is a difference between the cognitive learning and the sensory learning. Cognitively one may know what pain is but his hypo tactile sensitivity may not let one recognize a cavity in a tooth. The exercises in this book have been tried with different students before writing. Our goal is to better the lives of Autistic people using RPM. We know that our autistic children have many sensory challenges. As parents most importantly we want to know what we can DO to help. This book is packed with 'HOW TO's' - practical exercises which can be done for 5-10 mins a day at home. I feel that this book can help people even if they do not have a prior knowledge of Soma RPM. I loved that I was reading it and thinking about my son, I had so many "Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" moments - for me the sign of a great resource book that will be read and re-read many times. --Sue Finnes, Parent As an occupational therapist I have found sensory based learning to be an integral part of my practice. This is especially important for persons who present with difficulties with sensory processing including challenges taking in, interpreting and responding to sensory inputs from their environments. In order to maximize learning and motor skill development, it is beneficial to teach by incorporating the student's stronger sensory channels while continuing to facilitate development of weaker channels. It is also important to utilize these channels to help students maintain a regulated state in order to promote active engagement in a multitude of tasks and experiences across environments. Teaching via Rapid Prompting Method provides the sensory supports needed to help maximize each students ability to learn, both academic content and functional skills. Utilizing this sensory rich method of teaching has helped many of my students develop the skills they need to lead more meaningful lives. --Amy Brennan, M.S., OTR/L, BCP
Book Synopsis An Exploration of the Rapid Prompting Method for Students with Autism by :
Download or read book An Exploration of the Rapid Prompting Method for Students with Autism written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) was created by Soma Mukhopadhyay as an attempt to provide a way for individuals with autism to learn and communicate. The method has been said to give students with autism a means of communication. A facilitator quickly provides verbal prompts to the individual, who then spells out messages on a letter board or a keyboard. Very little research has been done on RPM, and it is not considered an evidence-based method. Many professionals believe that RPM is not a valid method of communication, largely due to the striking similarities it has with Facilitated Communication (FC). FC is another method of communication for individuals with autism that was discredited in 1993 and 1994. It involved a facilitator holding the hand or arm of an individual and helping them spell out messages. It was found that the facilitators were actually authoring the messages, rather than the individuals with autism. The present literature review compares the two methods and discusses the research that has been done on both the Rapid Prompting Method and Facilitated Communication.
Book Synopsis Harnessing Stims and Behaviors in Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method by : Soma Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Harnessing Stims and Behaviors in Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method written by Soma Mukhopadhyay and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harnessing Stims and Behaviors in Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method demonstrates how to redirect behaviors and stims in an RPM session so that the learning objectives can be achieved. Included are examples of lesson plans that can be helpful to educators of Autism. Behaviors may not always be a "dead end" and stims many not always be the hurdles of learning if the teacher can dissolve them within the planning of the lessons.
Book Synopsis Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children by : Nancy R. Kaufman
Download or read book Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children written by Nancy R. Kaufman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: m
Book Synopsis Super Responders: Predicting Expressive Language Gains Among Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by : Jonathan Luke Panganiban
Download or read book Super Responders: Predicting Expressive Language Gains Among Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Jonathan Luke Panganiban and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much research in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has focused on the development of efficacious interventions to address the core deficits of ASD. However, the heterogeneous nature of ASD complicates the development of such interventions. With great heterogeneity in the expression of ASD's core deficits, it is unlikely that there is a one size fits all intervention. It is important for researchers to understand for whom an intervention works. Advancements in data analytics, in particular machine learning, provide new methods to identify subgroups among a given population, and can potentially help to identify for whom intervention works best. Of particular interest are minimally verbal individuals. A targeted social communication intervention known as JASPER (Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation) has shown promise for improving language outcomes among minimally verbal children with ASD and may provide the context to examine the question of for whom an intervention benefits. This study aims to develop a model predicting expressive language gains among minimally verbal, preschool aged children with ASD that received a targeted social communication intervention. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis was used to explore the relationship between child characteristics and gains in expressive language. Secondary data analysis was conducted on a sample of 99 minimally verbal, preschool age children with ASD, collected from participants across five previous intervention studies. Expressive language gains (outcome) were calculated using expressive language age equivalents from the Mullen Scales for Early Learning. Predictors for the analyses were taken from child demographics and behavioral assessments completed prior to intervention. The initial list of predictors included race, gender, ASD severity, visual reception age equivalent, fine motor age equivalent, joint attention gestures, requesting gestures, and play skills. Using expressive language age equivalent change scores, 47% (n = 47) of the sample were identified as "super responders," children that exceeded expressive language gains typically expected through maturation. To predict responder status, all initial predictors were used to generate conditional inference forest, from which the most important variables would be chosen for the final model. Conditional inference results identified three variables to be fitted into the final model; play diversity, requesting gestures, and fine motor age equivalent. A final conditional inference tree was created, with play diversity being the only significant predictor of responder status. Participants with an entry play diversity score above 23 predicted super response while scores of 23 or below predicted slow response. The overall model accuracy was 67%, with a specificity of 55% and sensitivity of 78%. As a comparison, stepwise logistic regression was run, and play diversity was again the only significant predictor of responder status ( 2 (1) = 10.686, p = .001). Receiver operating characteristic curves were generated to compare model performance, and comparison of area under the curves for the two models showed no statistical difference (p = .82). Overall accuracy of the conditional inference tree was moderate, and performed similarly to the more traditional logistic regression analysis. However, the conditional inference tree provides a cutoff point that may provide clinical utility over the regression results. Both models identify play diversity as in important predictor of expressive language gains from JASPER, which is a play based social communication intervention. Additionally, our model appears to be more sensitive to identifying slow responders. The role of play diversity and expressive language gains in JASPER is discussed.
Book Synopsis A Multimodal Approach to Develop Expressive Language and Pragmatics in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by : Trevor Harris
Download or read book A Multimodal Approach to Develop Expressive Language and Pragmatics in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Trevor Harris and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that can affect thinking, feeling, language, and social skills in a variety of ways, and can emerge in behaviors that change from one individual to another (NIMH, 2016). While speech pathologists have used traditional approaches in order to develop communication skills in individuals with ASD, there has been little research performed combining techniques used from other professions and integrating those techniques into a speech therapy session. A case study was conducted on a school-age child diagnosed with autism to determine if intervention approaches used by other professionals in combination with speech therapy would improve language and pragmatic skills. Over the course of 9 weeks, a single subject ABAB treatment approach was used interchanging a traditional speech therapy approach and a hybrid intervention approach that contained techniques from the backgrounds of both Applied Behavior Analysis and Music Therapy. The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 5th Edition (CELF-V) and criterion referenced assessments were used to collect baseline and post intervention data in the areas of expressive and receptive language as well as pragmatics. Treatment revolved around three treatment goals, which targeted correctly producing present and past tense verbs, identifying objects and their function, and appropriately requesting social interactions from others. The results of the CELF-V exhibited improvement or no growth in five of the six subtests assessed, while the criterion-referenced assessments displayed improvement in the participant's social skills and a decline in the participant's expressive language. Raters were used to assess the participant's pragmatic skills using the Pragmatic Activities Checklist and Pragmatics Profiles subtests. Cohen's Kappa was calculated to compare the reliability of the raters, and revealed that the raters were inconsistent in their scoring of the participant's pragmatic abilities. The results of the study concluded that while there were small gains made in the participant's expressive language and pragmatics from the standardized and criterion-referenced tests, the length of the study was too short to determine if the hybrid intervention approach used in the study could make large gains in the participant's communication skills. The participant's three goals targeted in the study, as well as the parent observations during the study, exhibit positive outcomes in terms of the effectiveness of the study for the participant.
Book Synopsis Early Start Denver Model for Young Children with Autism by : Sally J. Rogers
Download or read book Early Start Denver Model for Young Children with Autism written by Sally J. Rogers and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From leading authorities, this state-of-the-art manual presents the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), the first comprehensive, empirically tested intervention specifically designed for toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Supported by the principles of developmental psychology and applied behavior analysis, ESDM’s intensive teaching interventions are delivered within play-based, relationship-focused routines. The manual provides structured, hands-on strategies for working with very young children in individual and group settings to promote development in such key domains as imitation; communication; social, cognitive, and motor skills; adaptive behavior; and play. Implementing individualized treatment plans for each child requires the use of an assessment tool, the Early Start Denver Model Curriculum Checklist for Young Children with Autism. A nonreproducible checklist is included in the manual for reference, along with instructions for use; 8½" x 11" checklists are sold separately in sets of 15 ready-to-use booklets. See also the authors' related parent guide, An Early Start for Your Child with Autism.
Book Synopsis Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts by : Ali Shehadeh
Download or read book Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts written by Ali Shehadeh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan, China, Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Spain, and France, this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.
Book Synopsis The Autistic Child by : Ole Ivar Lovaas
Download or read book The Autistic Child written by Ole Ivar Lovaas and published by Halsted Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders by : Jennifer B. Ganz
Download or read book Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders written by Jennifer B. Ganz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as autism is a continuum of disorders, it is associated with a broad range of neurodevelopmental, social, and communication deficits. For individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has a major impact on their daily lives, often reducing the occurrence of challenging behaviors. Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders is a practical guide to the field, offering readers a solid grounding in ASD, related complex communication needs (CCN), and AAC, especially visual and computer-based technologies. Widely used interventions and tools in AAC are reviewed—not just how they work, but why they work—to aid practitioners in choosing those most suited to individual clients or students. Issues in evaluation for aided AAC and debates concerning its usability round out the coverage. Readers come away with a deeper understanding of the centrality of communication for clients with ASD and the many possibilities for intervention. Key areas of coverage include: AAC and assessment of people with ASD and CCN. Interdisciplinary issues and collaboration in assessment and treatment. AAC intervention mediated by natural communication partners. Functional communication training with AAC. The controversy surrounding facilitated communication. Sign language versus AAC. Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential resource for clinicians/practitioners, researchers, and graduate students in such fields as child and school psychology, speech pathology, language education, developmental psychology, behavior therapy, and educational technology.
Book Synopsis I Am in Here by : Elizabeth M. Bonker
Download or read book I Am in Here written by Elizabeth M. Bonker and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She looked into my eyes and blinked hers slowly and deliberately, like a stroke victim, to show me that although she couldn't speak, she understood what I was saying to her. I stroked her hair softly. 'I know you're in there, honey,' I told her. 'We'll get you out.'" Despite the horror of seeing fifteen-month-old Elizabeth slip away into autism, her mother knew that her bright little girl was still in there. When Elizabeth eventually learned to communicate, first by using a letterboard and later by typing, the poetry she wrote became proof of a glorious, life-affirming victory for this young girl and her family. I Am in Here is the spiritual journey of a mother and daughter who refuse to give up hope, who celebrate their victories, and who keep trying to move forward despite the obstacles. Although she cannot speak, Elizabeth writes poetry that shines a light on the inner world of autism and the world around us. That poetry and her mother's stirring storytelling combine in this inspirational book to proclaim that there is always a reason to take the next step forward--with hope.
Book Synopsis Autism Spectrum Disorder by : Christopher J. McDougle
Download or read book Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Christopher J. McDougle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Primer on Autism Spectrum Disorder provides a quick yet comprehensive overview of clinically-relevant topics related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for the medical or mental health student, trainee, or recent graduate who seeks efficient learning. Aspects of diagnosis, etiology, treatment and care delivery systems are covered by leading experts. Clinical vignettes, highlighted Key Points, and illustrative photos, figures and tables are used to enhance the learning experience for the reader.
Book Synopsis The Picture Exchange Communication System Training Manual by : Lori Frost
Download or read book The Picture Exchange Communication System Training Manual written by Lori Frost and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an updated description of The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). It begins with a discussion of the "big picture," or the authors view on the importance of laying the foundation for communication training by systematically structuring the learning environment (be it in the home, community or school). This approach, The Pyramid Approach to Education, embraces the principals of broad-spectrum applied behavior analysis and emphasizes the development of functional communication skills, independent of communication modality. The Pyramid Approach is one of the few approaches that encourages creativity and innovation on the teacher's part through databased decision making.
Book Synopsis Polarons and Bipolarons by : Ashok Chatterjee
Download or read book Polarons and Bipolarons written by Ashok Chatterjee and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive review of the subject of polaron and a thorough account of the sophisticated theories of the polaron. It explains the concept of the polaron physics in as simple a manner as possible and presents the theoretical techniques and mathematical derivations in great detail. Anybody who follows this book will develop a solid command over the subject both conceptually and technically and will be in a position to contribute to this field.
