Enhancing Communication for Individuals with Autism

Enhancing Communication for Individuals with Autism
Author: Howard C. Shane
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598572216

Discover the Visual Immersion System (VIS), a practical, research-based intervention framework that taps into the strong visual processing skills many children on the spectrum have.

Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Jennifer B. Ganz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781493953387

Just as autism is a continuum of disorders, it is associated with a broad range of neurodevelopmental, social, and communication deficits. For individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has a major impact on their daily lives, often reducing the occurrence of challenging behaviors. Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders is a practical guide to the field, offering readers a solid grounding in ASD, related complex communication needs (CCN), and AAC, especially visual and computer-based technologies. Widely used interventions and tools in AAC are reviewed—not just how they work, but why they work—to aid practitioners in choosing those most suited to individual clients or students. Issues in evaluation for aided AAC and debates concerning its usability round out the coverage. Readers come away with a deeper understanding of the centrality of communication for clients with ASD and the many possibilities for intervention. Key areas of coverage include: AAC and assessment of people with ASD and CCN. Interdisciplinary issues and collaboration in assessment and treatment. AAC intervention mediated by natural communication partners. Functional communication training with AAC. The controversy surrounding facilitated communication. Sign language versus AAC. Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential resource for clinicians/practitioners, researchers, and graduate students in such fields as child and school psychology, speech pathology, language education, developmental psychology, behavior therapy, and educational technology.

Prosody Intervention for High-Functioning Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Prosody Intervention for High-Functioning Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Author: Michelle Dunn
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1784502685

When making the transition to adulthood, young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder can find their opportunities limited by their impaired prosody. Through a program of evidence-based lessons and resources, this book helps to develop verbal and nonverbal skills essential to adult life, particularly in the context of looking for a job or social situations. It is a complete curriculum, covering everything from self-calming to fluency and conversational skills, and includes lesson plans, handouts, and homework. The program has been successfully used by the authors in their work with people on the autism spectrum and will be a life-changing resource for professionals as well as for parents and people on the autism spectrum wanting to improve their ability to communicate well.

A Computational View of Autism

A Computational View of Autism
Author: Uttama Lahiri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030402371

This book first explains autism, its prevalence, and some conventional intervention techniques, and it then describes how virtual reality technology can support autism intervention and skills training. The approaches and technologies covered include immersive virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. The tasks covered include emotion recognition, affective computing, teaching communication skills, imparting literacy skills, training for imitation skills, and joint attention skills. Most of the chapters assume no prerequisite knowledge of autism or virtual reality, and they are supported throughout with detailed references for further investigation. While the author is an engineer by profession, with specialist knowledge in robotics and computer-based platforms, in this book she adopts a user perspective and cites many real-life examples from her own experience. The book is suitable for students of cognitive science, and researchers and practitioners engaged with designing and offering technological assistance for special needs training.

Motivate to Communicate!

Motivate to Communicate!
Author: Simone Griffin
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1849050414

Presents three hundred games and play therapy activities for children with autism, covering ways to use food, toys, social and outside games, and other techniques for motivation and engagement.

Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781934575505

Visuals of all kinds (photographs, checklists, line drawings, cartoons, flowcharts, stick figures, etc.) are commonly used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually. However, not all visuals are created equal and, therefore, visuals don't all work equally well. This companion to Learning With a Visual Brain in an Auditory World helps the reader understand how to match the developmental levels of pictures and visuals to the developmental level of the person looking at the visual. In this way, appropriate visuals provide the language development for children with autism spectrum disorders. Drawing from their experience with children and youth for decades, the authors also show how effective communication can help reduce the confusion and anxiety that often lead to behavioral outbursts. --Google Books.

Rising to New Heights of Communication and Learning for Children with Autism

Rising to New Heights of Communication and Learning for Children with Autism
Author: Vicki Turner
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857003321

Children with pervasive developmental disorders often do not learn from conventional methods, which can result in social isolation, behavior problems, limitations in communication, and slow academic growth. Greater integration into home and school activities, improved behavior and academic success can be achieved using alternative-augmentative communication (AAC), and this book explains exactly how to make it happen. Exploring the various communication and intervention options available and offering straightforward techniques and strategies for using them effectively, this book clearly explains everything families, teachers, therapists and other professionals need to know in order to improve a child's communication, behavior, social and academic skills. Chapters follow a consistent, user-friendly format, answering the questions Who, What, Why, How, Where and When about every technique. This book will be essential reading for anyone looking to improve social interaction between children with pervasive developmental disorders and those around them.

Communication Problems in Autism

Communication Problems in Autism
Author: Eric Schopler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 147574806X

The North Carolina State Legislature's mandate to Division TEACCH has three major components. First, to provide the most up-to-date and cost effective services possible for families with autistic or similar language impaired children; second, to conduct research aimed toward the better under standing of such devastating disorders; and third, to provide training for the professionals needed to pursue these goals. One element in achieving these aims is to hold annual conferences on topics of special importance to the under standing and treatment of autism and similar disorders. In addition to training professionals and parents on the most recent de velopments in each conference topic, we are publishing a series, Current Issues in Autism, based on these conferences. These books are not, however, simply the published proceedings of the conference papers. Instead, some chapters are expanded conference presentations, whereas others come from national and in ternational experts whose work is beyond the scope of the conference, but es sential in our attempt at comprehensive coverage of the conference theme. These volumes are intended to provide the most current knowledge and profes sional practice available to us at the time.