Teaching Independence and Choice: How to Use Photographic and Written Activity Schedules in Autism Intervention
A DVD or Video Program from Princeton Child Development Institute
"Over a Quarter Century of Excellence"

The Princeton Child Development Institute, a comprehensive intervention and research program for children and adults with autism, was founded in 1970. PCDI continues to be in the forefront of applied behavior analysis research and treatment of autism. Of children who enter the program before the age of five, approximately half make transitions to public school classrooms, often at the appropriate grade levels. Some former students are now in college, and some are college graduates. The behavioral approach to intervention used at PCDI is supported by years of rigorous and systematic investigation.  In October of 1997, the Institute expanded its technology dissemination efforts by presenting the first teleconference on autism intervention. This program is based on that conference.

Recent research conducted at PCDI documents the effectiveness of procedures that enable children, youths, and adults with autism to make choices, to sequence their own activities, to initiate conversations, and to complete many functional tasks without assistance or prompts from others.

How to Use Photographic and Written Activity Schedules in Autism Intervention provides detailed information about:

• how to teach first activity schedules

• how to include social interaction tasks in schedules

• how to teach choice making

• how to fade prompts

• how to use schedules at home to enhance participation in family life

• how to help children progress from pictorial to written schedules

• how to use schedules to build time-management skills

• how to troubleshoot instructional procedures to ensure skill acquisition

Videotapes made in PCDI's preschool, school, and group homes, and in children's own homes, demonstrate the use of the teaching procedures, show curriculum materials, and illustrate error-correction and prompt-fading procedures.

Presenters:

Patricia J. Krantz, Ph.D.
Lynn E. McClannahan, Ph.D.
Edward C. Fenske, M.A.T., Ed.S.
Gregory S. MacDuff, Ph.D.

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Two DVDs or VHS Videotapes
2 hours and 45 minutes
Cost: $120.00 U.S.

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