The Scope of Occupational Therapy Services for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders Across the Lifespan

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-683 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals Parent Perspectives of an Occupational Therapy Telehealth Intervention

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wallisch ◽  
Lauren Little ◽  
Ellen Pope ◽  
Winnie Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Parent Empowerment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Telehealth Intervention ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Occupational Therapy Intervention

Occupational therapy services delivered via telehealth can support families of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in everyday routines such as mealtime, bedtime, and play. The aim of the current study was to understand the lived experiences of parents who participated in a 12-week, telehealth-delivered occupational therapy intervention (Occupation-Based Coaching). We used semi-structured interviews and subsequent thematic content analysis to understand how parents perceived the mechanism of service delivery (i.e., videoconferencing) and the content of the intervention. Themes that emerged from the data included Compatibility with Everyday Life, Collaborative Relationship, and Parent Empowerment. Parents expressed how telehealth fit within their daily lives, how telehealth supported a collaborative relationship with the occupational therapist, and how the content of the intervention built a sense of empowerment.

Does occupational therapy play a role for communication in children with autism spectrum disorders?

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 594-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle L. J. Hébert ◽  
Eva Kehayia ◽  
Patricia Prelock ◽  
Sharon Wood-Dauphinee ◽  
Laurie Snider
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

Disfluency Characteristics Observed in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Report

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W. Plexico ◽  
Julie E. Cleary ◽  
Ashlynn McAlpine ◽  
Allison M. Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Young Children With Autism ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Developmental Stuttering

This descriptive study evaluates the speech disfluencies of 8 verbal children between 3 and 5 years of age with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Speech samples were collected for each child during standardized interactions. Percentage and types of disfluencies observed during speech samples are discussed. Although they did not have a clinical diagnosis of stuttering, all of the young children with ASD in this study produced disfluencies. In addition to stuttering-like disfluencies and other typical disfluencies, the children with ASD also produced atypical disfluencies, which usually are not observed in children with typically developing speech or developmental stuttering. (Yairi & Ambrose, 2005).

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