Assessment of Home-Based Behavior Modification Programs for Autistic Children: Reliability and Validity of the Behavioral Summarized Evaluation

Background: The word messy is often given negative meanings and calling an important aspect of play 'messy' can lead to it being undervalued. Messy play involve children using all their senses in the process of exploration especially the sense of touch offering children plenty of opportunity to mould and manipulate materials not having a focus on making or producing something. Objectives: To explore the perception of parents in regard to messy play questionnaire filled by Occupational Therapist who works with Parents of children having Autism Spectrum Disorder. Study Design: Survey method Methods: 30 Occupational Therapist who are working in an Early Intervention Centre across Delhi, have filled a questionnaire about “Perception of Parents about Messy Play in Sensory Based Programs”. The questionnaire was created using Google form and its reliability and validity was tested. Results: The results of the study suggest that parents use messy play during sensory based intervention in home programs occasionally.70 percent of parents suggest using other sensory based equipment’s in comparison to messy play. 80.7 percent of the Occupational Therapist feels that only some of the parents actually do the activities related to messy play. Conclusion: This study shows that Messy play though the cheapest form of intervention with most wide used possibilities of exploration is still not preferred by many parents. Despite all the contributions messy play can make to children's learning and development there does seem to be a reluctance to promote messy play in the home based settings, neglect of such play may be connected with other people's anxieties about children making a mess and its associations with words such as muddled, confused and shambolic. This has led to this type of play being seen as unimportant and undervalued.

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Treatment Effects of a Total Behavior Modification Program with Five Autistic Children

Behavior Therapy with Children ◽

10.4324/9781351314404-16 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 190-200

Author(s):

Robert M. Browning

Keyword(s):

Behavior Modification ◽

Treatment Effects ◽

Autistic Children ◽

Total Behavior

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Expert Amateurs: Raising and Treating Children with Autism

Understanding Autism ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691150468.003.0004 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Chloe Silverman

Keyword(s):

Behavior Modification ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Diagnostic Category ◽

Children With Autism ◽

Private Life ◽

Autistic Children ◽

Milieu Therapy ◽

Treatment Practices ◽

Parental Work ◽

Affective Involvement

This chapter focuses on parents emerging from the experience of wide-ranging psychogenic theorizing about autism during the 1950s and 1960s, of which Bruno Bettelheim's work was but one well-known example. Parents' accounts of their work during a period when the diagnostic category of autism was in flux highlight their unique authority as caregivers and “amateur” therapists. These accounts of parents' treatment activities make clear that expert knowledge and private life have continually intersected in the families of autistic children. The chapter examines how love, through parental efforts to help their children by training themselves in treatment practices, has functioned as a form of practice or technique in interventions to address the syndrome of autism. In both the case of the Orthogenic School's milieu therapy and parental work in behavior modification techniques, the affective involvement of “semiprofessionals” was key to what was experienced as the success of the interventions.

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A Behavior Modification Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Children

Psychopathology and Child Development ◽

10.1007/978-1-4684-2187-3_17 ◽

1976 ◽

pp. 291-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

O. Ivar Lovaas ◽

Laura Schreibman ◽

Robert L. Koegel

Keyword(s):

Behavior Modification ◽

Autistic Children

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The reliability and validity of self-reported reproductive history and obstetric morbidity amongst birth to ten mothers in Soweto

Curationis ◽

10.4102/curationis.v23i4.753 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

GTH Ellison ◽

T De Wet ◽

KP Matshidze ◽

P Cooper

Keyword(s):

Clinical Utility ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Clinical Decision ◽

Reproductive History ◽

Medical Disorders ◽

Home Based ◽

Self Reports ◽

Obstetric Morbidity ◽

Clinical Measurements

Objective: To assess whether self-reports of reproductive history and obstetric morbidity provide an accurate basis for clinical decision-making. Setting, participants and methods: Self-reports of maternal age and reproductive history, together with clinical measurements of five medical disorders, were abstracted from the obstetric notes of 517 mothers whose children were enrolled in the Birth to Ten study. These data were compared to self-reported information collected by interview during the Birth to Ten study. Findings: The reliability of self-reported age and gravidity was high (R=0.810-0.993), yet self-reports of previous miscarriages, terminations, premature- and stillbirths were only fairly reliable (Kappa=0.48-0.50). Self-reported diabetes and high blood pressure had specificities of more than 95% for glycosuria, hypertension and pre-eclampsia. However, the specificity of self-reported oedema for hypertensive disorders and the specificity of self-reported urinary tract infection for STD seropositivity were only around 65%. Conclusions: The modest reliability and limited validity of self-reported obstetric morbidity undermines the clinical utility of this information. Recommendations: These results strengthen the case for providing mothers with “Home-based Maternal Records” to facilitate access to accurate obstetric information during subsequent clinical consultations.

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