Overview
- Examines evidence-based Applied Behavior Analysis interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder
- Explores ABA treatments for autism and their importance in legal and school settings
- Addresses decision-making ethics and cultural considerations related to the ABA treatments for individuals with autism
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Overview of Evidence-Based Practice
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Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Intervention
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Keywords
- Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
- Applied Behavioral Analysis and autism
- Autism spectrum disorder and ABA
- Autism, ABA treatment, schools
- Behavioral skills training and autism
- Culture and ABA practices and autism
- Discrete trial teaching and ASD
- Early Start Denver Model and autism
- Ethics, ABA treatment, autism
- Evidence-based ABA practices and autism
- Evidence-based ABA practices and the law
- Functional behavior assessment, functional analysis
- Incidental teaching, ABA, autism
- PEAK Relational Training System and autism
- Picture Exchange Communication System
- Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) and ASD
- Shaping and autism intervention
- Time-out and response cost autism intervention
- Token economies and autism
- Video modeling and autism
About this book
This handbook addresses evidence-based practices in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It provides an overview of the history of evidence-based practices and their importance as applied to the law, school settings, and factors that influence the use for treatment of ASD. Additional areas of coverage include evidence-based and non-evidence-based ABA interventions for autism as well as decision-making ethics related to these treatments. In addition, the book addresses cultural considerations as they relate to these treatments and examines procedural aspects of ABA interventions for autism.
Key ABA treatments addressed include:
- Discrete trial teaching.
- Pivotal response training.
- Video modeling.
- Parent-mediated intervention.
- Early Start Denver Model, PEAK, PECS, and AAC.
- Script fading/activity schedules and differential reinforcement/extinction.
- Response interruption and redirection.
- Self-management and self-monitoring.
The Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions for Autism is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, rehabilitation medicine/therapy, pediatrics, and special education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Justin B. Leaf, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is the Co-director of Research for the Autism Partnership Foundation and the Associate Director of Doctoral Programs in ABA at Endicott College. Dr. Leaf received his doctorate degree in behavioral psychology from the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas. He worked directly under the mentorship of Dr. James Sherman and Dr. Jan Sheldon. Currently, Dr. Leaf leads the research team at Autism Partnership Foundation, which conducts research projects both nationally and internationally. His research interests include examining methods to improve social behaviors for children and adolescents with autism and develop friendships, comparing different teaching methodologies, evaluating parameters of reinforcement, and evaluating long term outcomes for individuals diagnosed with autism. Dr. Leaf has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals or book chapters and has presented at both national and international professional conferences and invited events. He serves or has served on several editorial boards f for prominent behavior analytic and autism journals.
Joseph H. Cihon, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is the Co-Director of Research for the Autism Partnership Foundation. Dr. Cihon received his bachelor’s degree in special education from Fontbonne University; master’s degree in behavior analysis at the University of North Texas under the mentorship of Dr. Shahla Alai-Rosales, Dr. Jesus Rosales-Ruiz, and Dr. Manish Vaidya; and his doctoral degree at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. He has more than 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities in home, school, and community settings. His research interests include evaluating approach-based interventions, shaping, increasing favorable interactions among children, their families, and interventionists, developing contingencies to promote generalization and maintenance, and improving mealtimes for selective eaters. Dr. Cihon has published in and served as a reviewer for several prominent journals and presented research at national and international conferences.
Julia L. Ferguson, M.S., is the Research and Assessment Coordinator for the Autism Partnership Foundation. Dr. Ferguson received her bachelor’s degree in applied behavior analysis and her master’s degree in behavior analysis from the University of North Texas under the mentorship of Dr. Shahla Ala’i. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in applied behavior analysis at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. Dr. Ferguson has more than eight years of experience working with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in home, school, community, and clinical settings. Her research interests include evaluating social skills interventions for individuals diagnosed with ASD,staff training, evaluating best practice interventions, and comparing different teaching methodologies for individuals diagnosed with ASD. Dr. Ferguson has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored book chapters, and has presented at national and international conferences.
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA, is Associate Dean of Applied Behavior Analysis, Director of the Ph.D. in ABA, and Professor at Endicott College, where she has been for ten years. Dr. Weiss also does research with the team at Melmark. She has worked in the field of ABA and autism for more than 35 years. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University in 1990 and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2000. Dr. Weiss previously worked for 16 years at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University. Her clinical and research interests center on defining best practice ABA techniques, exploring ways to enhance the ethical conduct of practitioners, teaching practitioners to integrate compassionate care and cultural humility into their work, training staff to be optimally effective at instruction and at collaboration, and maximizing family members’ expertise and adaptation. She serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, is on the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, is a regular contributor to the ABA Ethics Hotline, and is an adviser to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. She is a regular reviewer for several professional journals and is a frequent member of service committees for various organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions for Autism
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research into Practice
Editors: Justin B. Leaf, Joseph H. Cihon, Julia L. Ferguson, Mary Jane Weiss
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96478-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96477-1Published: 07 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96480-1Published: 08 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96478-8Published: 06 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 634
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Pedagogic Psychology