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Cleveland Clinic Children's. / 41.501881; -81.622656. Cleveland Clinic Children's (CCC) is a pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. The hospital has 389 pediatric beds [1] and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, the Case Western Reserve ...
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule ( ADOS) is a standardized diagnostic test for assessing autism spectrum disorder. The protocol consists of a series of structured and semi-structured tasks that involve social interaction between the examiner and the person under assessment. The examiner observes and identifies aspects of the subject's ...
Son-Rise is a home-based program for children and adults with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities, which was developed by Barry Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman for their son Raun, who was diagnosed with autism and is claimed to have fully recovered from his condition. [1] The program is described by Autism ...
Secondary-school-age students with autism began receiving services as young children; parents report that, on average, youth were 4 years old when they first received disability-related services from a professional (Wagner, Newman et al. 2003). By the time they are in secondary school, according to teachers, 97 percent of students with autism ...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 25 March 2019 doi: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00027 Frontiers in Education | www.frontiersin.org 1 March 2019 | Volume 4 | Article 27
From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of students with ASD spending 80% or more of the school day in a general education setting has increased from approximately 25% to nearly 40% (NCES, 2013). Most children with ASD still spend the majority of their time in segregated education settings, however.
Although Lovaas continued the use of both aversive and non-aversives behavioral intervention throughout the 1970’s and the early 1980’s, by the latter part of the 1980’s Lovaas shifted his focus to non-aversive interventions (Smith & Eikeseth, 2011). Lovaas is widely known and often cited for his original UCLA Young Autism Project Study ...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (Part 2): Evidence-Based Practices. This new IRIS Center Module, second in a two-part series, highlights strategies that have been shown to be effective in teaching appropriate behaviors and skills and decreasing inappropriate behaviors with children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).