Psychology | validating-preschool-programs-for-children-with-autism

You are here:Psychology News>Validating preschool programs for children with autism

Thursday, 19 May 2011 05:00

Validating preschool programs for children with autism

font size decrease font size increase font size
Print
E-mail

Researchers from the University of Miami Department of Psychology participated in a multisite study to examine different teaching models for children with autism spectrum disorder. The study is one of the first to look at the fidelity of treatment models for preschoolers with autism. The findings are published online in the current issue of the journal Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Read 542 times |

Published in Psychology News

Social sharing

More in this category: « Of frogs, chickens and people Researchers connect electrical brain disturbances to worse outcomes following neurotrauma »

Researchers use brain-injury data to map intelligence in the brain on Tuesday

Read More 372 Hits

New understanding of brain chemistry could prevent brain damage after injury
Written by Press Release

A protective molecule has been identified in the brain which, if used artificially, may prevent brain damage from the likes of stroke, head injury and Alzheimer's....

Written on Sunday, 15 May 2011 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
First Impressions Count
Written by Keiron Walsh

New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Belgium, and the United States shows there is more than a literal truth to the saying that ‘you never get a second chance to make a first…

Written on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 14:35 in Interesting Be the first to comment! Read more...
Teachers-based intervention provides stress resistance in war-exposed children
Written by Press Release

In a study published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, researchers report on the effects of an Israeli, teacher-based stress resistance intervention implemented in grade…

Written on Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:30 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Written by Keiron Walsh

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As the name suggests, obsessive compulsive disorder is characterised by obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are recurring and persistent thoughts, images or impulses that provoke anxiety and compulsions are repetitive & rule following behaviours…

Written on Sunday, 24 February 2008 14:50 in Psychopathology 3 comments Read more...
Potential new drug candidate found for Alzheimer's disease
Written by News Release

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San Diego have demonstrated that oral administration of a cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, not only reduces…

Written on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...

Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
Written by Keiron Walsh

Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

Written on Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:19 in Memory 18 comments Read more...
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Written by Keiron Walsh

Piaget believed that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the intelligence of young children, compared with older children and adults. There is a quantitative difference because adults have more knowledge of…

Written on Saturday, 08 March 2008 15:54 in Cognitive Development 8 comments Read more...
The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
Written by Keiron Walsh

Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…

Written on Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:46 in Memory 13 comments Read more...
AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
Written by Keiron Walsh

In Unit 3 of the AQA-A Psychology Specification, candidates must develop knowledge, understanding and skills of analysis and evaluation in relation to three topics selected from the following:

Written on Sunday, 31 May 2009 15:49 in Unit 3 Be the first to comment! Read more...
How to Spot a Narcissist From Their Facebook Profile
Written by Keiron Walsh

Narcissism is a personality disorder, characterised by "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy" (DSM IV-TR). Narcissists have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, believe they are special and unique, have…

Written on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:42 in Interesting 7 comments Read more...