Naturalistic Intervention in Classrooms: A Look at Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching

• By: Sarah Vejnoska, BA, Janice Chan, MA, BCBA Sarah Rieth, PhD, BCBA-D Jessica Suhrheinrich, PhD Child and Adolescent Services Research Center of University of California, San Diego Aubyn Stahmer, PhD UC Davis MIND Institute
• January 1st, 2015
• behaviors, Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching, CPRT, intervention, school, teacher
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Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching, or CPRT, is a naturalistic behavioral intervention designed for classrooms serving students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). CPRT was created by modifying an evidence-based practice called Pivotal Response Training (PRT), which strives to improve learning in...

Autism and Science: A View from Across the Neural Divide

• By: Karl Wittig, PE Aspies for Social Success (AFSS)
• January 1st, 2015
• actually autistic, adult, advocacy, genetics, science
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I am writing this because I am in the somewhat unusual position of not only being on the autism spectrum and fairly involved in the autism community, but also of coming from a scientific background, even if not in the field of autism (I am a retired electronics engineer with degrees in physics,...