Florence D. DiGennaro Reed

TL;DR: Results suggest that video modeling can be an effective technique to train staff to conduct discrete-trial sessions and show an immediate increase in accuracy.

TL;DR: The most common social skill addressed was initiating conversation followed by play skills as mentioned in this paper, and the most common play skills addressed were initiating conversation, responding in social situations, social problem-solving, and social problem solving.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of systematic changes in levels of treatment integrity by altering errors of commission during error-correction procedures as part of discrete-trial training suggests that 50% commission errors may be as detrimental as 100% Commission errors on teaching outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors explored family concerns surrounding children's transition in 132 students (n = 29 special education; n = 103 general education) preparing to enter kindergarten and found that caregivers of special education students reported significantly more concerns surrounding their child's behavior, communication, academic readiness, and overall readiness for kindergarten than did caregivers of general education students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a literature review to determine the number of empirical studies using behavioral interventions to treat stereotypy exhibited by children with autism or other pervasive development disorder, identifying the assessment techniques used to determined the function of stereotypy, broadly categorize the treatment procedures, and summarize findings of other relevant variables (e.g., participant demographics, experimental setting, change agents used, and topography of stereotypes).