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Research on the Education of Autistic Children: Recent Advances and Future Directions

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The purpose of this chapter is twofold: first, to report on some recent advances in the treatment of autistic children, and second, to propose some directions for future research with these children. In general, autism has been described as an extreme form of childhood psychopathology, characterized by deficits in language and in social and emotional behavior, as well as a preoccupation with bizarre, stereotyped mannerisms and, in some cases, tantrums or self-injurious behavior. The first application of the principles of behavior modification to the specific problems of autistic children appeared in the literature in 1961. Three papers by Ferster during that year (Ferster, 1961; Ferster & De Myer, 1961a,b) gave a major impetus to subsequent research in the field. During the last 15 years, the developing discipline has begun to establish a useful technology of behavior change for autistic children, including the training of self-help skills (e.g., Marshall, 1966), speech (Hewett, 1965: Metz, 1965; Risley & Wolf, 1967: Lovaas, 1966, 1967), and reading skills (Hewett, 1964); the elimination of self-injurious behavior and other severe behavior excesses (e.g. Wolf, Risley, & Mees, 1964; Lovaas, Freitag, Gold, & Kassorla, 1965a; Tate & BAroff, 1966; Lovaass, & Simmons, 1969; Carr, Newsom, & Binkoff, 1976); and the establishment of classroom programs (Kozloff, 1975; Koegel & Rincover, 1974; Rincover & Koegel, 1977) and training regimens for parents (Davison, 1964; Schreibman & Koegel, 1975) and teachers (Koegel, Russo, & Rincover, 1977).

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