Pre-Schoolers with Autism : An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for Clinicians.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781846420931Subject(s): Autism in children | Autistic children -- Education (Early childhood) | Early childhood education -- Activity programs | Electronic books. -- localGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pre-Schoolers with Autism : An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for CliniciansDDC classification: 618.92/89 LOC classification: RJ506.A9 -- B739 2005ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Pre-Schoolers with Autism: An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents Manual for Clinicians -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRRODUCTION -- Who is the programme for? -- About the manuals -- Who should deliver this programme? -- How should the programme be delivered? -- SECTION ONE: HOW TO RUN THIS PROGRAMME -- Group Session 1: Outline and goals of the programme -- Individual Session 1: An educational session with a focus on your child's development and behavioural symptoms -- Group Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis -- Individual Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis -- Group Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour -- Individual Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour -- Group Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences -- Individual Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences -- Group Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour -- Individual Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour -- Group Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children -- Individual Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children -- Group Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children -- Individual Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children -- Group Session 8: Social impairment in autism -- Individual Session 8: Social impairment in autism -- Group Session 9: How to work and play together -- Individual Session 9: How to work and play together -- Group Session 10: Review and critique of programme - where next? -- Individual Session 10: Review and critique of programme - where next? -- SECTION TWO: GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL SESSION NOTES 1-10 -- Group Session 1: Outline and goals of the programme -- Programme outline -- Goals -- Group rules.
Discussion topic: Autism -- Individual Session 1: An educational session with a focus on your child's development and behavioural symptoms -- Group Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis -- Reactions to diagnosis -- Stress and coping -- Individual Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis -- Group Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour -- What is behaviour management? -- How to start -- Individual Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour -- Group Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences -- Reinforcing behaviour -- Extinction -- Punishment -- Individual Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences -- Group Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour -- Prompting -- Shaping -- Chaining -- Individual Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour -- Group Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children -- Verbal children -- How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children? -- Individual Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children -- Group Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children -- Non-verbal children -- How do these language problems affect the behaviour of non-verbal children? -- Improving non-verbal communication using augmentative systems -- How to encourage communication -- Let's start communicating:Some ideas to get a communication interaction going in young children -- Individual Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children -- Group Session 8: Social impairment in autism -- Treatment -- Treatment approaches for young children -- Treatment approaches for older children and adolescents -- Individual Session 8: Social impairment in autism -- Group Session 9: How to work and play together -- The importance of play.
How to gain your child's attention -- To increase eye contact, attending and staying on task, remember… -- Individual Session 9: How to work and play together -- Group Session 10: Review and critique of programme - where next? -- Individual Session 10: Review and critique of programme - where next? -- APPENDIX 1: USEFUL WEBSITES AND FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX 2: AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S DISORDER -- REFERENCES -- SAMPLE - COURSE COMPLETION CERTIFICATE FOR PARENTS.
This training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children. It is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents.
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