Vera Bernard-Opitz
Our Knowledge about Spectrum Disorders and effective treatment methods has significantly increased over the last 35 years. For the broad spectrum of impairments there is now a spectrum of acknowleged intervention methods.
This manual gives an overview of best practice interventions including applied behaviour analysis, precision teaching, and experience-based and visual approaches. These methods are integrated into curriculum component of this manual, caleed STEP. Guidlines are presented for parents and professionals to match the child's skill profile, learning style and interest to the best possible intervention method. Numerous cas studies, examples, sketches and pictures make this book very reader-friendly. Reproducible forms are provided for skills assessment, data collection and teaching in following areas:
Attention,Eye Contact, and Joint Attention
Matching and Sorting
Imitation
Language Comprehension
Active Communication and First Utterances
Expanded Communication
Play and Social Behaviour
Self-Help Skills and Independence
271 pages soft cover 2007 ISBN 978-1-4164-0230-9
