Abstract
This chapter discusses interventions for school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). These include: applied behavior analysis, a discipline devoted to understanding the function behind human behavior and finding ways of altering or improving behaviors; discrete trial training, which involves breaking skills into the smallest steps, teaching each step of the skill until mastery, providing lots of repetition, prompting the correct response and fading the prompts as soon as possible, and using positive reinforcement procedures; pivotal response training, which aims to apply educational techniques in pivotal areas that affect target behaviors; and psychopharmacology.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The School Practitioner's Concise Companion to Mental Health |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199893430 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195370584 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2010 |
Keywords
- Applied behavior analysis
- Asperger's syndrome
- Autism
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Discrete trial training
- Pivotal response training
- Psychopharmacology
- School social work
- School-based intervention
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