Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching for Children ..

Paperback: 210 pages

Publisher: Guilford Press; Pap/Dvdr edition (16 Sep 2011)
LanguageEnglish

ISBN-10: 1609182413

ISBN-13: 9781609182410
Product Description
This practical manual and accompanying DVD-ROM present a research-supported behavioral intervention for children with autism that teachers can easily integrate into their existing classroom curriculum. Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching (CPRT) enhances children's motivation and participation in leaing; increases the number of leaing opportunities they experience each day; and promotes mastery of targeted communication, play, soc-ial, and academic skills. In a convenient large-size format with lay-flat binding, the book features more than two dozen reproducible worksheets and forms to aid in planning and implementing the procedures. The DVD-ROM includes narrated PowerPoint presentations with invaluable video examples of CPRT in action, along with copies of the reproducibles.
This book will be invaluable tospeci-al educators and classroom teachers; also of interest to school and child clinical psychologists, behavior speci-alists, applied developmentalists, and speech-language pathologists. It may alsoserve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses.