ABA Blog: Took Kits by Autism Speaks

2011-09-21

Took Kits by Autism Speaks

These can be really helpful. Even more helpful if you have competent professionals to help you if you case is very challenging.

I reviewed the Transition Toolkit as one of my sources for a piece for Science in Autism Treatment - SIAT -, the newsletter of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment - ASAT, Summer Issue, page 18. The newsletter has links to that source and many others, relevant especially n the US.

You can learn more about ASAT here. And about SIAT here; this is something you will look forward to receiving.

The latest Autism Speaks Tool Kit covers blood work! There is a parent and a professional version and to download the PDF you need to give some brief information to AS, which is pretty reasonable. These files are not yet available in the Tool Kit page.

Here is the link for the parent kit and here for the professionals.

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Discrete Trials Teaching with Children with Autism – A Self-Instructional Manual is the joint effort of Drs. Daniela Fazzio, PhD, BCBA-D and Garry L. Martin, PhD, to contribute to the continuously growing field of early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) for children with autism. With the growing numbers of children diagnosed and of the availability of programs and practitioners using applied behavior analysis to teach them, comes a substantial need for effective training strategies to bring interventionists and educators up to speed. Discrete Trials Teaching (DTT) is one of the main instructional strategies used in EIBI and a good DTT package will require good instructional material and qualified professionals to supervise implementation. The DTT Manual provides the instructional material and the structure for mastery of the components of this DTT package; the manual has been extensively researched with good results on accuracy of DTT implementation in the training setting and generalization with actual children with autism.