Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: A Progressive Guide to Change

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Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
New Harbinger Publications, 2009 - Medical - 400 pages

Copublished with Context Press

Derived Relational Responding offers a series of revolutionary intervention programs for applied work in human language and cognition targeted at students with autism and other developmental disabilities. It presents a program drawn from derived stimulus relations that you can use to help students of all ages acquire foundational and advanced verbal, social, and cognitive skills.

The first part of Derived Relational Responding provides step-by-step instructions for helping students learn relationally, acquire rudimentary verbal operants, and develop other basic language skills. In the second section of this book, you'll find ways to enhance students' receptive and expressive repertoires by developing their ability to read, spell, construct sentences, and use grammar. Finally, you'll find out how to teach students to apply the skills they've learned to higher order cognitive and social functions, including perspective-taking, empathy, mathematical reasoning, intelligence, and creativity. This applied behavior analytic training approach will help students make many substantial and lasting gains in language and cognition not possible with traditional interventions.

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About the author (2009)

Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, PhD, BCBA, is professor of behavior analysis and therapy at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno; and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Puget Sound. She is also a board-certified behavior analyst. Ruth Anne is a fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, and previous editor of The Psychological Record. She has published numerous articles in the area of verbal behavior and derived relational responding for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has been president of numerous professional organizations, is author of forty-five books and nearly 650 scientific articles, and is among the most cited living psychologists. He has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and is originator and codeveloper of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas; relational frame theory (RFT): an empirical program in language and cognition; and process-based therapy (with Stefan G. Hofmann). Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, PhD, is lecturer in psychology in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, in Maynooth, Ireland.

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