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Self-Help Skills for People with Autism: A Systematic Teaching Approach (Topics in Autism)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.154
EAN: 9781890627416
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1890627410
Label: Woodbine House
Manufacturer: Woodbine House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: August 22, 2007
Publisher: Woodbine House
Release Date: July 08, 2007
Studio: Woodbine House
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Editorial Review:
(2008 IPPY Award: Bronze Medalist, Psychology/Mental Health)
Learning self-help skills (eating, dressing, toileting, and personal hygiene) can be challenging for people with autism, but is essential for independence. SELF-HELP SKILLS FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM thoroughly describes a systematic approach that parents and educators can use to teach basic self-care to children, ages 24 months to early teens, and even older individuals.
With an encouraging tone, the authors--behavior analysts and psychologists--emphasize that it's worthwhile to devote the extra time and effort now to teach skills rather than have your child be forever dependent on others. The many case studies throughout SELF-HELP SKILLS depict individuals with deficits in specific self-care tasks, and demonstrate how a coordinated and systematic approach is effective in teaching more complex skills. For example, a 12-year-old with the self-feeding skills of a toddler (who was excluded from the school cafeteria), is taught to stay at the table to eat a full meal using utensils.
The book's beginning chapters explain the teaching process in detail: Specify the target skill to be taught after prioritizing the self-care tasks that are most important and will likely have the greatest success rate; Use task analysis to break complex skills into a series of small steps that will later be linked together to form the more complex skill; Apply a systematic approach to instruction that consistently employs proven methods for teaching people with autism including verbal prompting, reinforcers/rewards, chaining, graduated guidance, shaping, modeling, visual supports, etc.; Monitor progress by collecting and analyzing data; Modify the approach as needed to achieve the target goal.
A chapter is devoted to each of the four skill areas (eating, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene) offering detailed insight and specific instruction strategies. Appendices contain forms to complete for task analyses, instructional plans, and data collection.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - BEST Book on Self-Help Skills
This book is clearly written and behaviorally accurate. It will be helpful to both parents and professionals who need to improve their own techniques so the children and adults they work with can become independent with self-help skills. As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, an author, and a mother of an 11-year-old son with autism, I am recommending this book to everyone!
Mary Lynch Barbera, RN, MSN, BCBA
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