Increasing Medical Compliance for Children with Autism : A Desensitization Package /

This video will show parents and professionals how to use a multi-component desensitization package for training children with autism to tolerate a medical examination. The video provides an explanation of each component of the treatment package, as well as real-life examples of how to use desensiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Southern Illinois University (Carbondale campus). Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University, 2006.
Series:Education in Video, volume 2
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This video will show parents and professionals how to use a multi-component desensitization package for training children with autism to tolerate a medical examination. The video provides an explanation of each component of the treatment package, as well as real-life examples of how to use desensitization effectively. The video contains actual footage of an unsuccessful pretest medical examination, a clinician implementing treatment, and a post-test that illustrates the child's successful compliance to the examination. After watching this video, viewers should have a greater understanding of how to implement the following techniques to increase compliance to medical examinations for children with autism: desensitization; differential reinforcement of other behavior; escape extinction; video priming.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 22, 2015).
Physical Description:1 online resource (31 min.)
Playing Time:00:30:50