Maintaining Best Outcomes for Students in a Congregate Care Setting Amidst a Pandemic

• By: Rita M. Gardner, MPH, LABA, BCBA, CDE® Helena L. Maguire, MS, LABA, BCBA Jennifer Labowitz, MS, NCSP, BCBA Silva Orchanian, MEd, BCBA, LABA Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D Melmark
• July 1st, 2020
• congregate care, COVID-19, home instruction, individualized plans, motivation, staff, students, summer 2020 issue, technology, telehealth, virtual instruction
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COVID-19 posed immediate and unprecedented challenges to organizations providing intensive behavioral services in a congregate care setting to children and adolescents diagnosed with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities. The evolving discoveries about the novel virus and how to combat...