Jill Fain Lehman, Rebecca Klaw

From Goals to Data and Back Again

Adding Backbone to Developmental Intervention for Children with Autism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors argue that theory must be combined with data for it to be used effectively in developmental intervention. Aimed at professionals and parents, the authors explain how to write basic developmental goals, how to collect data and analyse it and how to use the results of analysis to inform the next round of intervention decisions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 209mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781843107538
• ISBN-10: 1843107538
• Artikelnr.: 22473341

Autorenporträt

Jill Fain Lehman has been a researcher in the cognitive and computer sciences for twenty years. As a Senior Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, she has authored more than forty publications. She is the owner of KidAccess, Inc., a company dedicated to using cognitive science to support cognitively impaired children. Dr Lehman is also the mother of a child with ASD. Rebecca Klaw has worked for more than twenty years with exceptional children. She currently serves as a consultant to families with children with autism, as a teacher to professionals on issues related to ASD, and as the clinical supervisor for the Center for Autism at Pressley Ridge Schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why we wrote this book. 2. Identifying goals. 3. Writing measurable goals. 4. Collecting the data. 5. Putting it all together
Joey, Tyler and Mai Lin. 6. From data collection to data analysis. 7. Detecting change
the mean. 8. Measuring reliability
the standard deviation. 9. Exceptions that prove the rule
factor data. 10. Coming full circle
Joey, Tyler and Mai Lin. 11. Conclusions. Appendix A
Basic intervention goals for children with autism. Appendix B
Charts and handouts, Appendix C
Exercises. References. Index.