Overview
- Offers a group-based adaptation of the Early Start Denver Model (G-ESDM) for preschoolers with autism
- Examines sustainable, evidence-based G-ESDM interventions for preschoolers
- Illustrates instructional techniques for promoting play, communication, and learning
- Provides tools and resources (e.g., fidelity measures)
- Addresses barriers to successful delivery of ASD interventions in inclusive (mainstream) preschool settings
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Featured topics include:
- Creating treatment objectives in the G-ESDM.
- Setting up the G-ESDM team and learning environment.
- Development of the G-ESDM classroom curriculum.
- Practical tools such as decision-making trees, teaching templates, and fidelity systems.
- Facilitating learning through peer interactions and social participation.
Implementing the Group-Based Early Start Denver Model for Preschoolers with Autism is a must-have resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, and social work along with psychiatry, pediatrics, and educational and healthcare policy.
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Keywords
- ABA and preschoolers with autism
- Applied Behavior Analysis and preschoolers
- Autism and Early Start Denver Model
- Autism early intensive behavioral intervention
- Autism treatment outcomes and preschoolers
- Developmental intervention and preschoolers with ASD
- Early intervention and preschoolers with autism
- Early learning and ASD
- Early Start Denver Model and group interventions
- EIBI for preschoolers with ASD
- ESDM and autism spectrum disorder
- G-ESDM and preschoolers with autism
- Group therapy and autism
- Group-based Early Start Denver Model and autism
- Naturalistic intervention for preschoolers with autism
- Play-based intervention and preschoolers with ASD
- Sally Rogers and Early Start Denver Model
- Social inclusion and preschoolers with ASD
- Social learning and preschoolers with autism
- Social learning and preschoolers with autism
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Ed Duncan, B.S., M.B.A, is Clinical Director of the Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centre (ASELCC) at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Ed has worked at this federally funded service on the implementation of the Early Start Denver Model in a group-based early intervention program since it began in 2010. His previous experiences include working as a manager and speech pathologist in several nonprofit organisations, specializing in working with young children with autism who are minimally verbal. He has held representative positions with AGOSCI (an organisation supporting the needs of people with complex communication needs) and more recently joined the Australian National Disability Insurance Agency.Mr. Duncan has contributed scientific articles to the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and entries within the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., is Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. She is the Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, where she oversees interdisciplinary autism research and clinical services for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. She has published extensively on early detection, brain development, and treatment of autism. Dawson is President of the International Society for Autism Research (2015-2017) and serves on the NIH Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which develops the federal strategic plan for autism research. Dawson received a Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Clinical Psychology from University of Washington and completed a clinical internship at UCLA.
Sally J. Rogers, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist, clinician, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Training and Mentoring at the MIND Institute, University of California Davis. She has been the principal investigator of several NIH funded multi-site autism research projects, including a ten year CPEA program project and two funded Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) network projects. She has served as president of the International Society for Autism Research, associate editor of the journal Autism Research, a member of the Autism Speaks Global Autism Public Health Initiative, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 33, and a member of the Autism, PDD, and other Developmental Disorders workgroup for the DSM 5. The Early Start Denver Model that she developed with Geri Dawson and other colleagues at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University of Washington, and University of California Davis is internationally known and recognized by Time.com and Autism Speaks as one of the 10 most important scientific findings of 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Implementing the Group-Based Early Start Denver Model for Preschoolers with Autism
Authors: Giacomo Vivanti, Ed Duncan, Geraldine Dawson, Sally J. Rogers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49691-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49690-0Published: 28 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84216-5Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49691-7Published: 16 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 147
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Behavioral Therapy, Social Work