Family factors, data collection and social validity.
Day one of the ABAI´s autism conference included many interesting speakers providing useful information. But as all presenters provided usefull information, som of them caught my interest more than others.
The first speaker of the day, was dr. Remmington providing some really interesting information on family factors and EIBI. He showed from both his own reserach and others how families are affected by doing EIBI. This surely will inspire to take more of the family factors into consideration in service provision.
Dr. Lerman highlighted some useful aspects of data collection in Discrete-Trail Teaching, focusing on differences on using continuous and discontinuous data collection. She showed interesting examples on difference on several aspects with the two data-collection methods. She summarized by recommending continuous data collection if you have the time and ease…..
And the talk Dr. Gregory Hanley gave on identifying effective and preferred behavior-change programs was great. Giving some wake-up calls on social validity and preference assessment of interventions. He presented some really interesting and important research, that should help professionals to assess social validity with the receivers of intervention.
Day two also held some interesting presentations. For me dr. Saunders talk on discrete trail teaching was interesting. It’s always nice to get updates on some of the basic research. And even if not so related to my practice the talks on feeding problems and health conditions in relation to problem behaviors were good ones as well.
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