RE: JASH article

[Guest guest]

That's pretty funny. I told my DTT consultant and therapists I wanted to do

the " What's that? " thing to get my son to question the environment like a 2

year old does and they thought I was nuts.

Kathy

Mom to Calvin " the monkey boy " 3.9 ASD

http://www.users.uswest.net/~tbharris/

[ ] JASH article

From: " L. " <diana@...>

I have a great Journal article from Koegel. It just came out in the JASH.

The article is " Pivotal Response Intervention I: Overview of Approach "

Here is a quote " An early study by R.L Koegel O'Dell and Koegel(1987)

demonstrated that a group of individual components, previously shown to

improve the rate and accuracy of responding was effective in producing

generalized and spontaneous verbal language acquisition in nonverbal

children with autism within and outside of the clinical setting. In

contrast, when language intervention sessions were conducted without the

motivational variables incorporated, very little or very slow gains with

little generalization or spontaneity were evidenced. These variables

include the use of child choice, frequent task variation, interspersing

previously learned tasks with new acquisition tasks, using less intrusive

prompting, reinforcing the child's attempts, and incorporating turn taking

in the interactions. "

The article talks about these things: motivation, child choice, natural

reinforcers, interspersing maintenance trials, reinforcing attempts,

multiple cues, self management and self initiations.

The JASH is the Journal of the association for persons with severe

handicaps. Vol 24 number 3 fall 1999 The whole journal is devoted to

autism. http://www.tash.org/publications/jash/special_issue.htm The

Journal is $5.00 for parents.

One thing I did implement after reading the article is a " What's that? "

program. I put some things in a bag and pull them out quickly saying

" What's that? " He imitates me and then I name the item. The theory is he

will start to say What's that on his own thus gaining information from his

environment.

I am also doing a " my turn " program where we play a lotto game and the only

thing we say is " my turn " when it is his turn. Then he says " my turn " in

imitation. When it is our turn we just take it quietly. Which is a baby

step toward the whole my/your concept.

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[Guest guest]

Kathy,

To give you more background on the " What's that? " question. The article says:

" Self-initiations appear to be pivotal. They have the potential to provide

for widespread spontaneous learning opportunities in natural environments

throughout the child's day, without the need for adult initiated

interventions. .... " They did a study teaching this question and it

resulted in " After the intervention phase of this study, all of the

children learned to use the question, " What's that? " in relation to items

they had previously been unable to label. Further, following the

intervention, all of the children generalized the response and began to

self-initiate with their mothers at home. They learned expressive

vocabulary labels as a result of these self-initiations. "

So pivotal behaviors are those behaviors which when learned help to support

learning other things. They say that pivotal behaviors for children with

autism are " responsivity to multiple cues, motivational procedures,

self-initiations and self-management of appropriate behaviors "

At 08:23 AM 1/9/00 -0800, you wrote:

>From: " Kathy " <keyharris@...>

>

>That's pretty funny. I told my DTT consultant and therapists I wanted to do

>the " What's that? " thing to get my son to question the environment like a 2

>year old does and they thought I was nuts.

>

>Kathy

>Mom to Calvin " the monkey boy " 3.9 ASD

>http://www.users.uswest.net/~tbharris/

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks ,

I ordered the journal and even did a quick baseline on it this evening. The

problem I had was that he knew almost all the cards I didn't think he knew

or made really excellent guesses (ambulance instead of firetruck, girl

instead of angel). Geez:)

He quickly got " I don't know " but it was hard to prompt him for " What is

that " because he kept trying to figure it out literally what it was. I

figure a little more work and he'll get it.

Kathy

Mom to Calvin " the monkey boy " 3.9 ASD

http://www.users.uswest.net/~tbharris/

RE: [ ] JASH article

From: " L. " <diana@...>

Kathy,

To give you more background on the " What's that? " question. The article

says:

" Self-initiations appear to be pivotal. They have the potential to provide

for widespread spontaneous learning opportunities in natural environments

throughout the child's day, without the need for adult initiated

interventions. .... " They did a study teaching this question and it

resulted in " After the intervention phase of this study, all of the

children learned to use the question, " What's that? " in relation to items

they had previously been unable to label. Further, following the

intervention, all of the children generalized the response and began to

self-initiate with their mothers at home. They learned expressive

vocabulary labels as a result of these self-initiations. "

So pivotal behaviors are those behaviors which when learned help to support

learning other things. They say that pivotal behaviors for children with

autism are " responsivity to multiple cues, motivational procedures,

self-initiations and self-management of appropriate behaviors "

At 08:23 AM 1/9/00 -0800, you wrote:

>From: " Kathy " <keyharris@...>

>

>That's pretty funny. I told my DTT consultant and therapists I wanted to

do

>the " What's that? " thing to get my son to question the environment like a 2

>year old does and they thought I was nuts.

>

>Kathy

>Mom to Calvin " the monkey boy " 3.9 ASD

>http://www.users.uswest.net/~tbharris/

>

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