# overview
My research focuses on the use of technology to improve social-communication deficits in people with autism spectrum and other developmental disabilities, and improving access to high-quality naturalistic intervention for traditionally underserved and minoritized students.

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People with disabilities--Means of communication

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Social Skills Training,for Children With Autism/pdd

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Single-case Design Data Analysis Studies

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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Augmentative And Alternative Communication (aac)

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University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)

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Special Education, Emphasis in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Challenging Behavior

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A meta-analysis of single case research studies on aided augmentative and alternative communication systems with individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

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A systematic quality review of high-tech AAC interventions as an evidence-based practice.

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The Use of Visual Supports to Facilitate Transitions of Students with Autism

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Quality Review of Social-Communication Interventions for Adolescents and Adults with ASD: Maintenance, Generalization, and Social Validity

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Caregiver Involvement in Communication Intervention for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families with Individuals with ASD and IDD: a Systematic Review of Cross-Cultural Research

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State of the Science and Future Directions for Communication Interventions for People with ASD

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Mega-Review of the Literature.

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EvidenceBased Practice in the Classroom: Evaluating a Procedure for Reducing Perseverative Requesting in an Adolescent with Autism and Severe Intellectual Disability

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Meta-analysis of PECS with individuals with ASD: investigation of targeted versus non-targeted outcomes, participant characteristics, and implementation phase.

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Implementing Visually Cued Imitation Training With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Delays

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Implementing Aided Augmentative Communication Systems With Persons Having Complex Communicative Needs.

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Treatment Intensity: Considering Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability Who Have Complex Communication Needs

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Communication and Affective Synchrony between Parents and Their Children with Autism during a Multimodal Communication Parent-Coaching Intervention

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How to Write and Implement Social Scripts

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Overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Complex Communication Needs

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Impacts of a PECS instructional coaching intervention on practitioners and children with autism.

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Considering Instructional Contexts in AAC Interventions for People with ASD and/or IDD Experiencing Complex Communicative Needs: A Single Case Design Meta-analysis

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The Effect of Noncontingent Positive Versus Negative Reinforcement on Multiply Controlled Behavior During Discrete Trial Training

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Implementing visual cues for young children with autism spectrum disorders and their classmates

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Impact of AAC Versus Verbal Modeling on Verbal Imitation, Picture Discrimination, and Related Speech: A Pilot Investigation

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Interaction of participant characteristics and type of AAC with individuals with ASD: a meta-analysis.

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American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)

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5 tips for parents to build communication skills with children with autism spectrum disorder

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An Evaluation of the Quality of Research on Evidence-Based Practices for Daily Living Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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Comparison between visual scene displays and exchange-based communication in augmentative and alternative communication for children with ASD

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Effects on communicative requesting and speech development of the Picture Exchange Communication System in children with characteristics of autism.

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State of the Science of Communication Interventions for People with ASD

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Functional Communication Training with Aided AAC

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Impact of the Picture Exchange Communication System: Effects on Communication and Collateral Effects on Maladaptive Behaviors

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A script-fading procedure shows potential for increasing context-appropriate empathic statements in some adolescents with autism

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Generalization and Maintenance of Functional Living Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Review and Meta-Analysis

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A Visually Based Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with IDD and Complex Communication Needs: A Meta-Analysis (Design Quality Review)

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The effectiveness of direct instruction for teaching language to children with autism spectrum disorders: identifying materials.

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Participant characteristics predicting communication outcomes in AAC implementation for individuals with ASD and IDD: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Effective Interventions in Teaching Employment Skills to Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: A Single-Case Meta-analysis

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A Systematic Review of Single-Case Research on Video Analysis as Professional Development for Special Educators

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Communication Interventions for People with ASD: State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

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Impact of the picture exchange communication system: effects on communication and collateral effects on maladaptive behaviors.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Applications for Persons with ASD and Complex Communication Needs

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Moderating factors of video-modeling with other as model: a meta-analysis of single-case studies.

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Supporting self-determination in AAC interventions by assessing preference for communication devices

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Assessing correspondence following acquisition of an exchange-based communication system.

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Using Visual Script Interventions to Address Communication Skills

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Speaking Volumes: Natural Opportunities to Promote the Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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Communication Intervention Implementation via Telepractice Parent Coaching: Parent Implementation Outcomes

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Interdisciplinary Issues and Collaboration in Assessment and Treatment

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Effects of Direct Instruction on the Reading Comprehension of Students with Autism and Developmental Disabilities

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The Impact of Social Scripts and Visual Cues on Verbal Communication in Three Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Behavioral skills training for teaching PECS implementation: Initial evidence is promising but still limited

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AAC Intervention Mediated by Natural Communication Partners

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Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice (Journal)

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Moderation of effects of AAC based on setting and types of aided AAC on outcome variables: an aggregate study of single-case research with individuals with ASD.

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Video Modeling and Video Feedback Interventions for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

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Impact of PECS tablet computer app on receptive identification of pictures given a verbal stimulus.

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A review of the quality of primary caregiver-implemented communication intervention research for children with ASD

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Effectiveness of Direct Instruction for Teaching Statement Inference, Use of Facts, and Analogies to Students With Developmental Disabilities and Reading Delays

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Caregiver-implemented intervention for an adult with autism spectrum disorder and complex communication needs

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Caregiver Involvement in Communication Skills for Individuals with ASD and IDD: a Meta-analytic Review of Single-Case Research on the English, Chinese, and Japanese Literature

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Functional Living Skills and Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

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Introduction to the special issue on quality of single-case experimental research in developmental disabilities.

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Using Remote Delivery to Train Parents in Video Analysis Procedures

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A Meta-Analytic Review of Family-Implemented Social and Communication Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

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A Meta-analytic Review of Functional Communication Training Across Mode of Communication, Age, and Disability

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Understanding the Effect Size of Peer-Mediated Academic Instruction: A Meta-Analysis

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How to Develop and Implement Visual Supports

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Access to Assessment? Legal and Practical Issues Regarding Psychoeducational Assessment in Children With Sensory Disabilities

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Efficacy of Handheld Electronic Visual Supports to Enhance Vocabulary in Children With ASD

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Augmentative and Alternative and Multimodal Communication for Individuals with Autism: A Conversation

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A grab bag of strategies for children with mild communication deficits

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A promising first attempt at implementing a modified Picture Exchange Communication System with three adolescents who were blind and had autism and moderate to severe cognitive impairments

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Coaching Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities to Implement a Modified Dialogic Reading Intervention Using Low Technology via Telepractice.

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American Speech Language Hearing Association

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High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with IDD and Complex Communication Needs: A Meta-Analysis (Variable Codes)

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The effects of video modeling in teaching functional living skills to persons with ASD: A meta-analysis of single-case studies.

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AAC and Assessment of People with ASD and CCN

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Self-Monitoring Across Age and Ability Levels: Teaching Students to Implement Their Own Positive Behavioral Interventions

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Systematic Review of Variables Related to Instruction in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Implementation: Group and Single-Case Design.

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American Speech Language Hearing Association

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Methodological standards in single-case experimental design: Raising the bar.

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The finding that teaching joint control may increase listener responses in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities (DD) is considered inconclusive due to a lack of supporting evidence and generalizability

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Behaviorally Based Interventions for Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children with ASD in Inclusive Settings: A Meta-analysis

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Effects of a Parent-Mediated Multimodal Communication Intervention on Communicative Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Participant Characteristics Predicting Communication Outcomes in AAC Implementation for Individuals with ASD and IDD: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Interventions for Improving Social-Communication Skills for Adolescents and Adults with ASD: a Meta-analysis

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Classroom Structuring Methods and Strategies for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Pardon the Interruption Enhancing Communication Skills for Students With Intellectual Disability

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Communication Intervention Implementation via Telepractice Parent Coaching: Child Outcomes and Correlations

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Naturalistic Augmentative and Alternative Communication Instruction for Practitioners and Individuals With Autism

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Effects of a Treatment Package on Imitated and Spontaneous Verbal Requests in Children with Autism

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Differential Effects of Video Analysis for Special Educators Related to Intervention Characteristics, Dependent Variables, and Student Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Research

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The use of social stories as a preventative behavioral intervention in a home setting with a child with autism

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Autism Spectrum Disorders Interventions and Treatments for Children and Youth

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Seeing Is Believing: Video Self-Modeling for People With Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities

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Meta-analysis of Single-Case Research on Teaching Functional Living Skills to Individuals with ASD

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Facilitated Communication: The Resurgence of a Disproven Treatment for Individuals With Autism

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Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders

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An aggregate study of single-case research involving aided AAC: Participant characteristics of individuals with autism spectrum disorders

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Non-responsiveness to intervention: children with autism spectrum disorders who do not rapidly respond to communication interventions.

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A Case for Increased Rigor in AAC Research: A Methodological Quality Review

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Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Overview

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ASD Tech: Implementation of evidencebased practices for people with autism spectrum disorder via mobile technology

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Effectiveness of the PECS Phase III app and choice between the app and traditional PECS among preschoolers with ASD

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A review of the quality of behaviorally-based intervention research to improve social interaction skills of children with ASD in inclusive settings.

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Effects of the use of visual strategies in play groups for children with autism spectrum disorders and their peers.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention Targets for School-Aged Participants with ASD and ID: a Single-Case Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Parent Coaching in a Multimodal Communication Intervention for Children with Autism

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Social Validity, Cost, Acceptability, and Feasibility of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices Used for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review

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American Speech Language Hearing Association

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Self-monitoring: Are young adults with MR and autism able to utilize cognitive strategies independently?

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High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with IDD and Complex Communication Needs: A Meta-Analysis (Reference List)

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High-technology augmentative and alternative communication for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex communication needs: a meta-analysis

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A Meta-Analytic Review of Family-Implemented Social and Communication Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: References Included in the Analyses

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The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS): A Promising Method for Improving Communication Skills of Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Comparison of Direct Instruction and Discrete Trial Teaching on the Curriculum-based Assessment of Language Performance of Students with Autism

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The quality of single-case research for individuals with autism spectrum disorders in Japan and Taiwan: An investigation of inter-rater reliability and treatment fidelity

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Effects of a self-monitoring device on socially relevant behaviors in adolescents with Asperger disorder: a pilot study.

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Video-based modeling: Differential effects due to treatment protocol

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Issues in and Application of Meta-Analyses and Syntheses of Single-Case Experimental Research in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

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Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Self-paced and video-based learning: Parent training and language skills in Japanese Children with ASD

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Use of an iPad play story to increase play dialogue of preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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Functional Living Skills and Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis: References Included in the Analyses

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Effects of peer-mediated implementation of visual scripts in middle school.

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Generalization of a pictorial alternative communication system across instructors and distance.

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Teaching caregivers to implement an augmentative and alternative communication intervention to an adult with ASD

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Parent Coaching via Telepractice for Children From Latinx Backgrounds With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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The impact of the Picture Exchange Communication System on requesting and speech development in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders and similar characteristics

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High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with IDD and Complex Communication Needs: A Meta-Analysis (Search Terms)

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Parent-Coaching Telehealth Intervention for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Program

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Considering Instructional Contexts in AAC Interventions for People with ASD and/or IDD Experiencing Complex Communicative Needs: a Single-Case Design Meta-analysis

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Training paraprofessionals to implement interventions for people autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention Targets for School-Aged Participants with ASD and ID: A Single-case Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Supporting the Play of Preschoolers With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Implementation of Visual Scripts

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Methodology: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the AAC Literature for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disabilities who have Complex Communication Needs through 2020

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Effects of video modeling on communicative social skills of college students with Asperger syndrome.

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Educating Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research-Based Principles and Practices

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AAC Interventions for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: State of the Science and Future Research Directions.

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University Center on Disability and Development at Texas A&M University

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United States Department of Health and Human Services - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Preparation of Leaders Across the Lifespan for Autism

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United States Department of Education - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Meta-Analyses of Variables Related to Instruction in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Implementation

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United States Department of Education - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Educational Psychology; 4225 TAMU

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Camargo, Siglia (2012-09). Behaviorally-Based Interventions for Improving Social Interaction Skills of Children with ASD in Inclusive Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Boles, Margot Breanne (2015-11). Effectiveness and Quality of Employment Skill Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-analysis, Quality Review, and Single-case Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Alison, Courtney E. (2011-10). Using Dogs in a Home-Based Intervention with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Heath, Amy Kathleen (2012-07). A Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Studies on Functional Communication Training. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Morin, Kristi (2017-06). The Use of Video Analysis to Change Special Educators' Instructional Practices: A Single-Case Study and Meta-Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hong, Eerea (2015-05). Effectiveness of Training Families of Individuals with ASD and Other DD in Social-Communication Interventions: A Single-Case Research, Examination of Evidence-Based Practice, and Meta-Analytic Review. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Mason, Rose (2012-07). Meta-analysis of Video Based Modeling Interventions for Individuals with Disabilities: Procedure, Participant, and Skill Specificity. Doctoral Dissertation.