Denise A. Soares

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effectiveness of computer aided self-monitoring of academic task completion to reduce self-injurious behavior in a 13-year-old male student with autism.

TL;DR: This paper explored within-group patterns of variability in the home literacy environments (HLEs) of low-income Latino families using latent profile analysis, which revealed three psychometrically distinct HLE profiles: Profile 1 (37%), labelled Low Beliefs, Low Practices (LBLP), was characterized by very low incomes, low caregiver education, reading infrequently to children, primarily speaking Spanish and reported lowest literacy beliefs and practices.

TL;DR: This article investigated the association between Mexican American maternal education and socioeconomic status (SES) and child vocabulary as mediated by parental reading beliefs, home literacy environment (HLE), and parent-child shared reading frequency.

TL;DR: The authors examined the contemporary peer-reviewed published single-case research evaluating the effectiveness of token economies (TEs) and found that TE was slightly more effective for youth between the ages of 6 and 15 years than for ch...

TL;DR: Findings indicated significant effects of this intervention approach on proximal vocabulary outcomes with no significant effects on standardized vocabulary measures are indicated.