Description
Trusted for more than 15 years, the groundbreaking DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY has revolutionized social and communication intervention for children of all ages with autism spectrum disorder. Now a new edition is here, reimagined and expanded for the next generation of children and support teams.
Whether you're a professional already or in training to be one, this is the resource you need to address complex social and communication challenges for children with autism from ages 3 to 18. In one comprehensive volume, you'll have everything you need to conduct effective assessment, set goals and objectives for the child, plan interventions that work, ensure generalization of skills, and monitor progress. Immediately useful new additions—including a more extensive assessment tool and a system to monitor skill development—make this a cornerstone resource for every professional working with children and youth with autism.
WHAT'S NEW
- Expanded and revised assessment and intervention planning tool, with an emphasis on tracking generalization of new skills
- The very latest evidence-based practices and intervention approaches for enhancing social and communication skills
- New activity sheets with fun and motivating ways to teach social, communication, and community skills
- A look at how restricted and repetitive behaviors affect learning and development (one of the most underexplored areas of autism)
- Guidance on prioritizing goals and objectives, linking them to assessment, and designing interventions.
- New chapter on progress monitoring that includes a full data collection toolkit for tracking the generalization of social and communication skills
- Updated vignettes and extended case stories illustrating social and communication challenges characteristic of autism
PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Assessment tool; activities to build play and leisure, social, and communication skills; more than a dozen sheets to help monitor progress toward skill mastery and generalization.
Reviews
Review by: Brenda Myles
“Simply brilliant! Based on a thorough understanding of ASD, social-communication development, and linguistics, the curriculum is written in such a manner that it can be easily implemented by educational professionals (who never have enough time) and is motivating to children and youth on the spectrum.”
Review by: Patricia Prelock, Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont
“Kathleen Quill has succeeded in providing for clinicians, educators, and parents the most comprehensive text to date that facilitates an understanding of the complexity of the social communication impairments of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) while providing a clear pathway for understanding how to assess both social and communication strengths and needs, select appropriate evidence-based interventions, and monitor progress. This second edition of Do-Watch-Listen-Say includes a revision of the Assessment of Social and Communication Skills for Individuals with ASD that guides clinicians in identifying potential obstacles to learning while planning intervention from the assessment results to the development of measurable objectives. Each chapter highlights critical learning elements and provides charts, tables, case examples, and sample assessment and intervention plans that enrich the readers understanding of those instructional strategies that are most likely to support the social communication of individuals with ASD.”
Table of Contents
- Understanding the Complexity of Autism
Historical and Contemporary Overview of Autism
Identifying and Diagnosing Autism
Cognition in Autism
Summary
- Understanding Social and Communication Development and Challenges
Core Skills for Social and Communication Development
Social Skill Development
Communication Skill Development
Restricted, Repetitive Behavior in Autism
Summary
- Assessing Social and Communication Skills
Understanding Educational Assessments
Assessment of Social and Communication Skills in Autism
The Assessment of Social and Communication Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Revised (ASCS-2)
Summary
Appendix: The Assessment of Social and Communication Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Revised (ASCS-2)
- Designing Intervention
Intervention Planning: An Overview
Framework for Targeting Skills
Framework for Intervention: Core Skills
Framework for Intervention: Social Skills
Framework for Intervention: Communication Skills
Framework for Intervention: Community Skills
Framework for Intervention: Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors
Summary
- Selecting Evidence-Based Practices to Enhance Social and Communication Skills
Evidence-Based Intervention Practices
Intervention Approaches
Summary
- Instructional Strategies to Enhance Social and Communication Skills
Teaching Opportunities
Explicit Instruction and Interactions
Summary
- Instructional Supports to Enhance Social and Communication Skills
Organizational Supports
Social Supports
Communication Supports
Behavior Supports
Summary
- Activities to Promote Development
Activity Strategies
Using the Sample Activity Sheets
Core Skills Activity Sheets
Social Skills Activity Sheets
Communication Skills Activity Sheets
- Collecting Data to Measure Authentic Progress
An Overview of Progress Monitoring
Monitoring Skill Emergence, Mastery, and Generalization
Data Collection Forms
Using Data to Make Intervention Decisions
Summary
Appendix A: Progress Monitoring Forms—Quantitative Data Collection Forms
Appendix B: Progress Monitoring Forms—Qualitative Data Collection Forms
References
Index