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Early Start: Preparing Adolescents for the Transition Years
The transition years prepare adolescents for life as an adult, including living as independently as possible, securing and maintaining employment and effectively interacting in the community. Children with autism spectrum…
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Berklee to Launch the Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs This Fall
…experience, and create in the arts. It will offer community programs, learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, professional development for teachers, and partnerships with international, national, and regional organizations….
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Autism, Sexuality, and Postsecondary Education
…many individuals with ASD are put at a disadvantage. They often misinterpret the emotions associated with attraction and rejection, leaving them susceptible to committing an inappropriate act without the realization…
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Supervision Training: Ensuring Quality at Every Level of an Organization
…residential, healthcare and rehabilitative services, personally designed for each individual in a safe environment of warmth, care and respect. For more information, please visit www.melmark.org and www.melmarkne.org. References McClannahan, L….
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Addressing Setting Events to Make Behavior Plans More Effective for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
…These four elements are sometimes are referred to as the “four-term contingency.” For example, an individual may be prompted to perform a task s/he does not wish to complete, and…
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Building Comprehensive, ABA-Informed Services in an Adult Residential Setting
…this article with an exciting example of these results. In recent years, SUS has begun serving a large number of individuals with very complex needs. These young adults came to…
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Evaluating the Ability of Learners with Autism to Work in Small Groups
…Taylor and colleagues seeks to isolate the components of the listening response that may facilitate learning observationally in group instructional contexts. Taylor, DeQuinzio, and Stine (2012) evaluated the components of…
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Autism Treatment: Addressing the Changes and Challenges
…support. Additionally, DSM-5 also introduced the diagnosis of social pragmatic communication disorder, which is given to children who experience difficulties in social communication and interactions, but who do not display…
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NIH Study Finds Attention to Others’ Eyes Declines in 2 to 6-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism
…visit the NIMH website www.nimh.nih.gov. About the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S….
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Mount Sinai Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Promising Treatment for Autism Subtype
…of IGF-1 in children with this severe type of autism. IGF-1 is a commercially-available compound for growth deficiency that is known to promote nerve cell survival as well as synaptic…
