Right from the Start: Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism (Topics in Autism S.) - Softcover

Written in an accessible and friendly style, Right from the Start explains how the teaching method known as Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) can benefit young children with autism and related disorders. This includes all children whose diagnosis falls within the broad spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), especially those five and younger. The guide begins by discussing applied behavioural analysis (ABA), the central component of intensive behavioural intervention. Readers learn how ABA can be used to teach speech and language, social, motor, and adaptive skills through a system of repetition, reward, and goal adjustment. The descriptions of a real-life family going through the process of understanding their young child's diagnosis and choosing an intensive behavioural intervention programme bolster the confidence of other parents in making their own evaluations.

Sandra L. Harris is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and Department of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers, which serves people with autism from toddlers through adults. Dr. Harris is also the editor of Woodbine House's Topics in Autism series.Mary Jane Weiss is Research Associate Professor at Rutgers. She is the Director of the Division of Research and Training at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center.