| Description |
xvi, 342 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Language And Autism: Applied Behavior Analysis is intended to provide clear guidance to practitioners in a concise format. It is an edited work consisting of 12 chapters, with each chapter including a final section with practitioner recommendations. The first two chapters include behavioral theory of language acquisition, the efficacy of behavioral, and other approaches commonly used interventions as applied to language. The next group of chapters addresses common targets, such as requesting, elaborated language use, reading and writing and nonsocial interventions for language acquisition. The next chapters address commonly used behavioral interventions, functional communication training and incidental teaching. The final chapter addresses decreasing inappropriate language. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Language problems in autism spectrum disorders / Peter Sturmey and Adrienne Fitzer -- Principles of applied behavior analysis and language acquisition / Jessica A. Boisjoli and Johnny L. Matson -- Behavioral theory and language acquisition / Claire L. Poulson -- Efficacy of interventions to promote language / Oliver C. Mudford, Erika Ford, and Angela M. Arnold-Saritepe -- General intervention approaches for teaching speech and its prerequisites / Jeff Sigafoos [and others] -- Teaching mands to individuals with autism spectrum disorders / Erik Drasgow [and others] -- The natural language paradigm and incidental teaching / Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, Michael Lane, and Jennifer Brosh -- Facilitating language in learners with autism: stimulus control technology / Bridget A. Taylor and Hannah Hoch -- Language learning: the formation and elaboration of stimulus classes / Robert Stromer and Rudy Vogt -- Speech prosody intervention in autism / John L. Brown and Claire L. Poulson -- Reducing inappropriate verbal behavior / Peter Sturmey -- Functional communication training intervention / David P. Wacker, Jay W. Harding, and Wendy K. Berg. |
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Autistic children -- Language.
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Autistic children -- Rehabilitation.
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Autistic children -- Behavior modification.
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Language acquisition.
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Behavior therapy for children.
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Autistic Disorder -- therapy.
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Language Disorders -- therapy.
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Autistic Disorder -- complications.
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Language Therapy -- methods.
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Behavior Therapy -- methods.
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Autistic children -- Behavior modification.
(OCoLC)fst00822507
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Autistic children -- Language.
(OCoLC)fst00822515
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Autistic children -- Rehabilitation.
(OCoLC)fst00822518
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Behavior therapy for children. (OCoLC)fst00829935
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Language acquisition. (OCoLC)fst00992119
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| Added Author |
Fitzer, Adrienne.
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Sturmey, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Language and autism. Austin, Tex. : PRO-ED, ©2009 (OCoLC)664503661 |
| ISBN |
9781416403760 (pbk.) |
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1416403760 (pbk.) |
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