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Understanding Intensive Interaction
This compendium offers a multidisciplinary perspective to intensive interaction, bringing together the authors' experience and research from different disciplines. Each chapter is devoted to an over-arching concept - including psychological theories of human behaviour, relationship building and maintenance and social inclusion.
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15 things your doctor doesn't know about your child : questions answered about developmental delays
Board Certified Pediatric Chiropractor Dr. Amber Brooks offers parents information on understanding how developmental delays can be caught early and even treated when found. She outlines potential problems and symptoms to help parents determine the root cause of the delay, using real life examples and the medical basis and philosophies involved with their treatments. Spanning multiple diagnoses and all of their respective symptoms, Dr. Brooks, DC, CACCP combines medical and alternative models to care for a child individually, examining the whole child rather than particular symptoms, to provide an individualized and comprehensive approach to pediatric wellness. -- Adapted from publisher description.
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Understanding intensive interaction: contexts and concepts for professionals and families
Intensive interaction is a valuable approach, with the potential to radically enhance the well-being of difficult-to-reach individuals, such as those with profound and severe learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and emotional problems. This highly accessible book will help families and professionals develop a deeper understanding of this highly-successful approach and its associated issues, resulting in improved communication opportunities within a variety of care, therapeutic and educational settings.This compendium offers a multidisciplinary perspective to intensive interaction, bringing together the authors' experience and research from different disciplines. A glossary format and thematic structure are employed to enable readers to quickly access topics of interest, and gradually build on their understanding of the approach. Each chapter is devoted to an over-arching concept - including psychological theories of human behaviour, relationship building and maintenance and social inclusion - and illustrated with case studies to support theoretical assertions and offer practical examples of useful techniques.A useful reference and reflective tool, this book will interest both family and professional carers, support staff, special education teachers, learning disability nurses, social services practitioners, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, or anyone who is interested in intensive interaction and wants to learn more.
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I am special : introducing children and young people to their autistic spectrum disorder
This workbook is designed for a child to work through with an adult. Unlike other books, its content and layout are devised for children who read, think and process information differently. The first part is a theoretical introduction. The second part is a series of worksheets through which the child creates a unique book about themselves.
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Disability across the developmental life span
This is the only text to provide comprehensive coverage of human growth and development, a requirement mandated by the Council of Rehabilitation Education (CORE) for a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and for Licensed Professional Counselor certification. Written by an eminent leader in the field of disability studies, this book reflects a significant change in perceptions of individuals with disabilities from being defined foremost by their disability to being viewed as normal individuals with a disability. It provides an understanding of traditional human growth and development that will enhance the practice of disability counseling by enabling an understanding of a client's childhood and prior life experiences. The book begins with a focus on developmental theories and tasks, followed by a discussion of cultural and ethical considerations in human development. It considers the major theories of human development as they relate to people with and without disabilities, and career theories with a focus on the concept of choice. The book addresses specific developmental stages including a description of developmental tasks, risks, disability applications, specific disabilities common to a particular stage, and cultural and ethical issues, all supported by case examples.
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Derived relational responding : applications for learners with autism and other developmental disabilities : a progressive guide to change
By implementing the techniques described in Derived Relational Responding, techniques based on a breakthrough new understanding of how humans acquire and use language, clinicians can make significant progress with their clients with autism and other developmental disabilities, limiting the loss of cognitive and social functioning that typically results from these conditions.
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Parent-Implemented Enhanced Milieu Teaching With Preschool Children Who Have Intellectual Disabilities
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of enhanced milieu teaching (EMT) implemented by parents and therapists versus therapists only on the language skills of preschool children with intellectual disabilities (IDs), including children with Down syndrome and children with autism spectrum disorders. Method: Seventy-seven children were randomly assigned to 2 treatments (parent + therapist EMT or therapist-only EMT) and received 36 intervention sessions. Children were assessed before, immediately after, 6 months after, and 12 months after intervention. Separate linear regressions were conducted for each standardized and observational measure at each time point. Results: Parents in the parent + therapist group demonstrated greater use of EMT strategies at home than untrained parents in the therapist-only group, and these effects maintained over time. Effect sizes for observational measures ranged from d = 0.10 to d = 1.32 favoring the parent + therapist group, with the largest effect sizes found 12 months after intervention. Conclusion: Findings from this study indicate generally that there are benefits to training parents to implement naturalistic language intervention strategies with preschool children who have ID and significant language impairments.
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Effects of Interventions That Include Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication Input on the Communication of Individuals With Complex Communication Needs: A Meta-Analysis
Purpose: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the effects of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions that included aided AAC input (e.g., aided AAC modeling, aided language modeling, aided language stimulation, augmented input) on communicative outcomes (both comprehension and expression) for individuals with developmental disabilities who use AAC. Method: A systematic search resulted in the identification of 26 single-case experimental designs (88 participants) and 2 group experimental designs (103 participants). Studies were coded in terms of participants, intervention characteristics, dependent variables, outcomes, and quality of evidence. Results: AAC interventions that included aided AAC input in isolation, or as part of a multicomponent intervention, were found to be highly effective across participants of various ages, disabilities, and language skills. The interventions typically included aided AAC input in conjunction with expectant delay, direct prompting (e.g., spoken, gestural), contingent responding, and open-ended questions. The interventions were found to be highly effective in supporting both comprehension and expression across the domains of pragmatics, semantics, and morphosyntax. Outcomes related to expression were reported more often than outcomes related to comprehension. Conclusion: Aided AAC input may reduce input-output asymmetry and enhance expression and comprehension for individuals who use AAC; the evidence suggests that partners should utilize this strategy. Future research is needed to investigate the effects of AAC input (aided and unaided) on long-term language development for individuals who require AAC.
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The effect of telerehabilitation on activity performance and participation in daily life in children with developmental coordination disorder: A randomized controlled trial
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that adversely impacts motor skills, sensory processing, and daily activity participation. Telerehabilitation has recently emerged as a promising method to improve therapy access and foster family involvement. This study investigated the effects of integrating telerehabilitation with sensory-based intervention on motor performance, sensory processing, and participation in children with DCD.
This randomized controlled trial included 20 children aged 3-7 years with a confirmed diagnosis of DCD. Participants were randomly assigned to either a sensory-based intervention (SBI) group or a telerehabilitation sensory-based intervention (TBSI) group. Both groups received weekly face-to-face sensory-based therapy for eight weeks. Additionally, the TBSI group participated in 30-minute weekly home-based telerehabilitation sessions. Outcome measures included the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), the Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM), and the Dunn Sensory Profile.
Both groups demonstrated statistically significant improvements; however, the TBSI group showed greater gains in WeeFIM motor, cognitive, and total scores as well as COPM performance and satisfaction scores (p < 0.01). Furthermore, larger improvements and greater effect sizes were observed in the sensory processing subdomains of the TBSI group. Parental training and active participation appeared to enhance the effectiveness of the telerehabilitation program.
Telerehabilitation is an effective intervention for improving motor and cognitive functions, sensory processing, and daily life participation in children with DCD. The findings support the integration of telerehabilitation into sensory-based approaches as part of a holistic model of care in occupational therapy practice.
Clinicaltrials.gov NCT06977256.
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