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Play and Social Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

There are precious few advantages to getting old. But one of them is perspective, specifically a perspective that allows one to fully enjoy the sheer beauty of progress. For me, reading this book allowed me the pleasure of just such a perspective. I have been in the ASD field for a half century, and in that time I have been a witness to the enormous advances that have been made in the field of ASD treatment, many of which are so elegantly presented in the present book.
Back when I first entered the field as an undergraduate student at UCLA, we were faced with trying to teach children with ASD, and since many had written off these children as “uneducable,” we knew we had our work cut out for us. How very excited and delighted we were when, via the application of learning theory, we were able to teach these children simple behaviors such as verbal and nonverbal imitation, object labels, social greetings, simple play skills, etc. Most often using food reinforcers and a highly regimented discrete trial intervention, we were gradually
able to teach limited, albeit important, behavioral repertoires. This was groundbreaking stuff followed by accolades from others—along with the subsequent realization that this early work had some profound limitations in terms of overall generalization of treatment effects. Back then we knew so much less about not only the nature of ASD but also which behaviors to teach, how to teach them, and what to expect in terms of developmental/functional sequence and collateral effects. Then, as applied behavior analysis as a science was maturing and coming into its
own, so was our ability to understand ASD as well as curricular issues and intervention effects. In turn, this has allowed us to affect more substantial and comprehensive treatment gains in these children. This progress has been dependent upon many years of systematic, well-designed, focused research conducted by many laboratories and clinics in the United States and abroad.

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Judul Seri
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No. Panggil
371.9
Penerbit
Switzerland : Springer Nature.,
Deskripsi Fisik
177 halaman
Bahasa
Inggris
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-319-72500-0
Klasifikasi
371.9
Tipe Isi
text
Tipe Media
computer
Tipe Pembawa
online resource
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Subjek
Pendidikan Khusus
Autisme-Anak
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