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Barriers to Providing Transitional Supports for Autistic Students: Insights of School Professionals
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Shannon Crowley LaPoint; So Yoon Kim; Kristen Bottema-Beutel – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Following high school exit, many autistic young adults are not enrolled in post-secondary education or employed, and few are engaged in community activities. This disengagement among autistic young adults may be a result of the limited or inadequate supports provided to autistic transition-age youth in schools. Therefore, the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Transitional Programs, Autism Spectrum Disorders, High School Graduates
The Role of Implementation Climate in Moderating Educator Use of Evidence-Based Practices and Outcomes for Autistic Students
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Aubyn C. Stahmer; Yue Yu; Jessica Suhrheinrich; Melina Melgarejo; Patricia Schetter – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Ensuring effective use of evidence-based practice (EBP) for autism in schools is imperative due to the significantly increasing number of autistic students receiving school services each year. High-quality EBP use has proven challenging in schools. Research indicates implementation climate, or how EBP are supported, rewarded, and valued, and EBP…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Educational Environment
Classroom Teachers' Implementation of the Social Stations Intervention to Improve the Verbal Initiations and Responses of Students with Autism
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Sutton, Bronwyn M.; Westerveld, Marleen F.; Webster, Amanda A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Students with autism often show challenges in social communication, particularly in initiating and responding behaviors. While the classroom offers a natural context for peer interactions, few interventions are designed specifically for classroom settings. This study investigated the effects of a classroom-teacher implemented social communication…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Interpersonal Communication
Inclusive Preschool Practitioners' Implementation of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Using Telehealth Training
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D'Agostino, Sophia; Douglas, Sarah N.; Horton, Elizabeth – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This single-case investigation was designed to evaluate the effects of telehealth training on practitioner implementation of a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI). Six general education preschool practitioners engaged in an intervention with six children with varying disabilities in inclusive classroom settings. The…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Intervention
A Module-Based Telepractice Intervention for Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities
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Akemoglu, Yusuf; Laroue, Dayna; Kudesey, Carolina; Stahlman, Mary – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In the current study, we describe a study of the Internet-based Parent-implemented Communication Strategies-Storybook (i-PiCSS). I-PiCSS is an intervention program designed to train and coach parents to use evidence-based naturalistic communication teaching (NCT) strategies (i.e., modeling, mand-model, and time delay) and reading techniques while…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Role, Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods
Employing Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Autism in Elementary Schools
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Sam, Ann M.; Odom, Samuel L.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Perkins, Yolanda; Cox, Ann W. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a comprehensive program model originally developed by the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder (NPDC). Sixty elementary schools with 486 participants were randomly assigned to an NPDC and services as usual condition (SAU). Significantly greater changes in program…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Evidence Based Practice