As a search of EBD Blog would reveal, I don’t usually complete memes. Julie Lorenzen of Austism-Blog tagged me with one, though. I’m following through here.
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In a systematic review of the research about parent training, Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski and colleagues of the US Centers for Disease Control identified factors that contribute to the effectiveness of programs that help parents manage the problematic behavior of their children. Of the 18 factors that they examined, only five proved to be important. Parent training programs that taught parents to respond consistently to problems, practice positive interactions, use time out, and required them to practice these skills with their own children led to greater effects on children’s externalizing behavior, but those that emphasized promoting children’s social skills had smaller effects on externalizing behavior.
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April is Autism Awareness month. It’s a good time to stop and reflect on how much we have learned from systematic and dogged research over the time since I first became aware of Autism. In the mid 1960s, I was already working with some children who had received that diagnosis, but knowledge about it was limited; when I asked my psych 101 professor about Autism, all I got was a blank look. I was fortunate to be in the neighborhood of UCLA, so our work with the children we had was influenced by behavior analysis.
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