Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: A Progressive Guide to Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162625463X ISBN 13: 9781626254633

Publisher: Context Press, 2009

Synopsis

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Derived Relational Responding offers a series of revolutionary intervention programs for applied work in human language and cognition targeted at students with autism and other developmental disabilities. It presents a program drawn from derived stimulus relations that you can use to help students of all ages acquire foundational and advanced verbal, social, and cognitive skills.

The first part of Derived Relational Responding provides step-by-step instructions for helping students learn relationally, acquire rudimentary verbal operants, and develop other basic language skills. In the second section of this book, you'll find ways to enhance students' receptive and expressive repertoires by developing their ability to read, spell, construct sentences, and use grammar. Finally, you'll find out how to teach students to apply the skills they've learned to higher order cognitive and social functions, including perspective-taking, empathy, mathematical reasoning, intelligence, and creativity. This applied behavior analytic training approach will help students make many substantial and lasting gains in language and cognition not possible with traditional interventions.

About this title

From the Publisher

By implementing the breakthrough techniques described in Derived Relational Responding, clinicians can make significant progress with their clients with autism and other developmental disabilities, limiting the loss of cognitive and social functioning that typically results from these conditions.

About the Author

Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, PhD, BCBA, is assistant professor in the Rehabilitation Institute of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Nevada, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Puget Sound. She is also a board-certified behavior analyst.

Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, PhD, is lecturer in psychology in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, in Maynooth, Ireland.

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. An author of forty-one books and more than 575 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Context Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 162625463X
• ISBN 13: 9781626254633
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Rehfeldt PhD BCBA Ruth Anne, Barnes-Holmes PhD Yvonne