Targeting Evidence Based Practice: Tools and Resources In Serving Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Targeting Evidence Based Practice Tools and
Resources In Serving Students with Autism
Spectrum Disorders

• Marilyn Gense, WESD
• Annette Skowron-Gooch, WESD
• Jay Gense, ODE

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Statewide Consultative and Resource Services for
ASD

• Current Research
• Keeping Current
• Support Systems

• Educational
• Medical

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Effective Education Practices

• Educating Children with Autism 2001 National
  Research Council

• Autism Spectrum Disorders Interventions and
  Treatments for Children and Youth 2005 Richard
  L. Simpson

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Autism Spectrum Disorders Interventions and
Treatments for Children and Youth

• Interpersonal Relationship Interventions and
  treatments
• Skill Based Interventions and treatments
• Cognitive Interventions and Treatments
• Physiological/Biological/Neurological
  Interventions and Treatments
• Other interventions, treatments, and Related
  Agents

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Rating

• Scientifically Based Practice
• Promising Practice

• Limited Supporting Information for Practice
• Not recommended

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Autism Spectrum Disorder The Context of
Speech-Language Pathologist Intervention

• http//www.asha.org/about/continuing-ed/ASHA-cours
  es/JSS/JSS7170.htm

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Organization for Autism Research

• http//www.researchautism.org/

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6 Steps to Success for Autism

• Step 1 Educate Yourself
• Step 2 Reach Out to the Parents
• Step 3 Prepare the Classroom
• Step 4 Educate Peers and Promote Social Goals
• Step 5 Collaborate on the Implementation of an
  Education Plan
• Step 6 Manage Behavioral Challenges

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6 Steps to Success for Asperger Syndrome

• Step 1 Educate Yourself
• Step 2 Reach Out to the Parents
• Step 3 Prepare the Classroom
• Step 4 Educate Peers and Promote Social Goals
• Step 5 Collaborate on the Implementation of an
  Education Plan
• Step 6 Manage Behavioral Challenges

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Treatment Grants Cure Autism Now
http//www.cureautismnow.org/site/apps/nl/content2
.asp?cbhLOK2PILuFb1289189ct2930875tryauid
1968273

• Teaching Imitation Skills to Young Children with
  Autism Predicting Response to a Naturalistic
  Social-Communication Intervention (Treatment
  Grant)Brooke Ingersoll, Ph.D., Lewis Clark
  College 
• Assessment of Treatment Outcome in Preschool
  Children with Autism Using Behavioral and
  Electrophysiological Measures of Speech
  Processing (Treatment Grant)Patricia K. Kuhl,
  Ph.D., University of Washington 
• Modified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
  and Social Problems in Children with Autism
  (Treatment Grant)Jeffrey J. Wood, Ph.D. and
  Connie Kasari, Ph.D. University of California,
  Los Angeles 

• Group Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Children
  with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Anxiety
  Symptoms (Treatment Grant)Judy A. Reaven, Ph.D.
  and Susan Hepburn, Ph.D., University of Colorado,
  Denver  
• The Effectiveness of A Light on Literacy for
  Autism A Case Control Study (Treatment
  Grant)Agnes H. Whitaker, M.D., Columbia
  University 

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Autism Research Network
• http//www.autismresearchnetwork.org/AN/default.as
  px

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Keeping Current

• Statewide Consultative and Resource Services for
  ASD
• ASD State Library http//www.wesd.org/specprogs/s
  ervices/spec_svcs_autism.asp (Click on link to
  resource library)
• TSPC Proposed Endorsement
• http//www.researchautism.org/

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Support Systems

• Regional Programs
• ?

• Access to current research
• Training for Local District Personnel
• RPATS
• Access to current journal articles
• Team, Personal Relationship

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Why is medical research a concern to educators?
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http//www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/newskey.cfm
?fromautism

• 08/16/06 Study Provides Evidence That Autism
  Affects Functioning of Entire Brain
• A recent study provides evidence that autism
  affects the functioning of virtually the entire
  brain, and is not limited to the brain areas
  involved with social interactions, communication
  behaviors, and reasoning abilities, as had been
  previously thought. The study, conducted by
  scientists in a research network supported by the
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), found that
  autism also affects a broad array of skills and
  abilities, including those involved with sensory
  perception, movement, and memory.
• 07/12/06 Researchers Gain Insight Into Why Brain
  Areas Fail To Work Together in Autism
• Researchers have found in two studies that
  autism may involve a lack of connections and
  coordination in separate areas of the brain.

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Medical

• Autism Speaks http//www.autismspeaks.org/funded_
  studies_2006.php
• OASIS
• http//www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/research.html
  
• Current Trends in Autism Conference, which will
  take place on March 23 and 24, 2007, at The
  Hilton Boston/Dedham. 
• Margaret L. Bauman, M.D.Director,
  LADDERSSenior Research Scientist, The Autism
  Research Foundation