Guest guest Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Autism Partnership's comment to the CNN story and the stated cost. The particular program delivered to the Bilson family was an intensive crisis intervention (RES-Q). Autism Partnership Blog Wed. 2/4/2009 $20,000--Are You Crazy??? http://autismpartnership.blogspot.com/2009/02/20000-are-you-crazy.html The trouble with these news pieces is that I think that this was a selected 6-7 minutes out of a week of intervention and who knows how long of baseline. Was it the best, worst or most view-worthy? For me the bottom line is whether this family was able to learned more effective strategies resulting in improvement of quality of life and improvement of an intractable situation. The program seemed to imply so. Beyond that, I would be speculating. Regina Claypool-Frey http://www.precisionteaching.pbwiki.com http://www.verbalbehavior.pbwiki.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 I wanted to post the description of this poster from the upcoming ABA Conference because there was some skepticism as to whether an intensive, focussed, yet short duration intervention could make real difference. I thought that it was not only relevant, but also interesting. #487 Poster Session 5/25/2009 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. North Hall A AUT 1. Does Nanny 911 Really Work? The Efficacy of a Short-term Intervention on Long-term Outcomes for Behavior Problems in Children with Autism. (N/A; Applied Behavior Analysis) EVELYN M. FLAHERTY (Eden II Programs), R. Cicero (Eden II Programs) Abstract: Popular television series such as Nanny 911 and Supernanny that deal with unruly children and their parents have portrayed that intense short-term behavioral interventions improve children's disruptive behavior. Although much is known about the efficacy of parent training in methods of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) to reduce children's behavior problems, less is known about the effectiveness of these short-term interventions in the home for parents of children with autism. The following study examines the effectiveness of an in-home, short-term parent-training model in treating behavior problems in children with an autism spectrum disorder. Participants were parents and their children ages 6-18 who displayed one or more disruptive behaviors such as aggression, noncompliance, or tantrums. A 7-10 session ABA parent-training model was employed and consisted of behavioral recommendations and procedures, therapist modeling, and parental practice with the techniques. Results showed that disruptive behaviors were significantly reduced from baseline levels after just 2 sessions of intervention. Further improvements in behavior were noted after the full course of treatment and at follow-up. Regina Claypool-Frey Precision Teaching site http://precisionteaching.pbwiki.com Verbal Behavior site http://verbalbehavior.pbwiki.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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