Effects of a family-implemented treatment on the repetitive behaviors of children with autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1330-1341

  Boyd, Brian A ^a   McDonough, Stephen G ^b   Rupp, Betty ^a   Khan, Faraaz ^a   Bodfish, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Repetitive behaviors; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; FAMILY IMPLEMENTED TREATMENT FOR BEHAVIORAL INFLEXIBILITY; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82755161932     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1156-y     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Ahearn, W. H., Clark, K. M., MacDonald, R. P. F., & Chung, B. (2007). Assessing and treating vocal stereotypy in children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40, 263-275.
2. Azrin, N. H., Besalel, V., Jamner, J. P., & Caputa, J. N. (1988). Comparative study of behavioral methods of treating severe selfinjury. Behavior Resident Treatment, 3, 119-152.
3. Bishop, S., Reichler, J., Cain, A., & Lord, C. (2007). Predictors of perceived negative impact in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 112, 450-461. (Pubitemid 350305117)
4. Bodfish, J. W. (2004). Treating the core features of autism: Are we there yet? Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 10, 318-326. (Pubitemid 40209464)
5. Bodfish, J. W., Crawford, T. W., Powell, S. B., Parker, D. E., Golden, R. N., & Lewis, M. H. (1995). Compulsions in adults with mental retardation: Prevalence, phenomenology, and comorbidity with stereotypy and self-injury. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 100, 183-192.
6. Bodfish, J. W., Symons, F. J., & Lewis, M. H. (1999). The Repetitive Behavior Scales (RBS). Western Carolina Center Research Reports.
7. Bodfish, J. W., Symons, F. J., Parker, D. E., & Lewis, M. H. (2000). Varieties of repetitive behavior in autism: Comparison to mental retardation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 30, 237-243.
8. Boyd, B. A., Conroy, M. A., Mancil, G. R., Nakao, T., & Alter, P. (2007). Effects of circumscribed interests on the social behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1550-1561. (Pubitemid 47255726)
9. Boyd, B. A., McBee, M., Holtzclaw, T., Baranek, G. T., & Bodfish, J. W. (2009). Relationships among repetitive behaviors, sensory features, and executive functions in high functioning autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 959-966.
10. Boyd, B. A., Rupp, B., & Bodfish, J. W. (2010). Direct observation of repetitive behaviors in autism. Unpublished manual, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
11. Campbell, J. M. (2004). Statistical comparison of four effect sizes for single-subject designs. Behavior Modification, 28, 234-246.
12. Cuccaro, M. L., Shao, Y., Grubber, J., Slifer, M., Wolpert, C. M., Donnelly, S. L., et al. (2003). Factor analysis of restricted and repetitive behaviors in autism using the Autism Diagnostic Interview- R. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 34(1), 3-17. (Pubitemid 37108180)
13. Dawson, G. (2008). Early behavioral intervention, brain plasticity, and the prevention of autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 775-803. (Pubitemid 352003597)
14. Dawson, G., Rogers, R., Munson, J., Smith, M., Winter, J., Greenson, J. et al. (in press). Randomized, controlled trial of the Early Start Denver Model, a developmental behavioral intervention for toddlers with autism: Effects on IQ, adaptive behavior, and autism diagnosis. Pediatrics, published online. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0958.
15. Gabriels, R. L., Cuccaro, M. L., Hill, D. E., Ivers, B. J., & Goldson, E. (2005). Repetitive behaviors in autism: Relationships with associated clinical features. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 26, 169-181. (Pubitemid 39601457)
16. Gorman-Smith, D., & Matson, J. (1985). A review of treatment research for self-injurious and stereotyped responding. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 29, 295-308. (Pubitemid 16126436)
17. Gotham, K., Pickles, A., & Lord, C. (2009). Standardizing ADOS scores for a measure of symptom severity in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 693-705.
18. Green, V., Sigafoos, J., Pituch, K., Itchon, J., O'Reilly, M., & Lancioni, G. (2006). Assessing behavioral inflexibility in individuals with developmental disabilities. Focus on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 4, 230-236.
19. Greenberg, J. S., Seltzer, M. M., Krauss, M. W., Chou, R. J., & Hong, J. (2004). The effect of quality of the relationship between mothers and adult children with disabilities: The mediating role of optimism. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74, 14-25. (Pubitemid 38173629)
20. Holman, J., Goetz, E. M., & Baer, D. M. (1977). The training of creativity as an operant and an examination of its generalization characteristics. In B. C. Etzel, J. M. LeBlanc, & D. M. Baer (Eds.), New developments in behavior research, theory, method and application. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
21. Honey, E., McConachie, H., Randle, V., Shearer, H., & Couteur, A. S. (2008). One-year change in repetitive behaviours [sic] in young children with communication disorders including autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1439-1450.
22. Horner, R. H., Carr, E. G., Halle, J., McGee, G., Odom, S., & Wolery, M. (2005). The use of single subject research to identify evidence-based practice in special education. Exceptional Children, 71, 165-179. (Pubitemid 40273033)
23. Jenson, W. R., Clark, E., Kircher, J. C., & Kristjansson, S. D. (2007). Statistical reform: Evidence-based practice, meta-analyses, and single subject designs. Psychology in the Schools, 44, 483-493.
24. Kasari, C., Freeman, S., & Paparella, T. (2006). Joint attention and symbolic play in young children with autism: A randomized controlled intervention study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47, 611-620. (Pubitemid 43744792)
25. King, B., Hollander, E., Sikich, L., McCraken, J., Scahill, L., Bregman, J., et al. (2009). Lack of efficacy of citalopram in children with autism spectrum disorders and high levels of repetitive behavior. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 583-590.
26. Koegel, R. L., & Covert, A. (1972). The relationship of selfstimulation to learning in autistic children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 5, 381-387.
27. Koegel, R. L., Firestone, P. B., Kramme, K. W., & Dunlap, G. (1974). Increasing spontaneous play by suppressing self-stimulation in autistic children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 7, 521-528.
28. Kratochwill, T. R., Hitchcock, J., Horner, R. H., Levin, J. R., Odom, S. L., Rindskopf, D. M., et al. (2010). Single-case designs technical documentation. Retrieved from What Works Clearinghouse website: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/wwc-scd.pdf.
29. Lam, K. S. L., & Aman, M. G. (2007). The Repetitive Behavior Scale - revised: Independent validation in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 855-866. (Pubitemid 46790783)
30. Lam, K. S. L., Holtzclaw, T. N., Baranek, G. T., & Bodfish, J. W. (2005). Early developmental patterns of repetitive behavior, aberrant behavior, and executive function deficits in autism spectrum disorders. Paper presented at thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Gatlinburg conference.
31. Lam, K. S. L., Piven, J., & Bodfish, J. W. (2008). Evidence for three subtypes of repetitive behavior in autism that differ in familiarity and association with other symptoms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1193-1200.
32. Lewis, M. H., & Bodfish, J. W. (1998). Repetitive behavior disorders in autism. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 4, 80-89. (Pubitemid 28363002)
33. Leyfer, O. T., Folstein, S., Bacalman, S., Davis, N. O., Dinh, E., Morgan, J., et al. (2006). Comorbid psychiatric disorders in children with autism: interview development and rates of disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 849-861. (Pubitemid 44440104)
34. Lord, C., Rutter, M., DiLavore, P. C., & Risi, S. (2002). Autism diagnostic observation schedule. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
35. Lounds, J., Seltzer, M. M., Greenberg, J., & Shattuck, P. (2007). Transition and change in adolescents and young adults with autism: Longitudinal effects on maternal well-being. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 112, 401-417. (Pubitemid 350305114)
36. Machado, A. (1989). Operant conditioning of behavioral variability using a percentile reinforcement schedule. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 155-166.
37. Mercier, C., Mottron, L., & Belleville, S. (2000). A psychosocial study on restricted interest in high functions persons with pervasive developmental disorders. Autism, 4, 406-425. (Pubitemid 32042177)
38. Miller, N., & Neuringer, A. (2000). Reinforcing variability in adolescents with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 151-165.
39. Mooney, E. L., Gray, K. M., & Tonge, B. J. (2006). Early features of autism: Repetitive behaviours [sic] in young children. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 15, 12-18. (Pubitemid 43333714)
40. Napolitano, D. A., Smith, T., Zarcone, J. R., Goodkin, K., & McAdam, D. B. (2010). Increasing response diversity in children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43, 265-271.
41. Neuringer, A. (1986). Can people behave "randomly?" The role of feedback. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115, 62-75.
42. Neuringer, A. (2004). Reinforced variability in animals and people: Implications for adaptive action. American Psychologist, 59(9), 891-906. (Pubitemid 40004754)
43. Newman, B., Tuntigian, L., Ryan, C., & Reinecke, D. (1997). Selfmanagement of a DRO procedure by three students with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 12(3), 149-156. (Pubitemid 27501227)
44. Noldus. (1991). The observer. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Noldus Information Technology.
45. Peters-Scheffer, N., Didden, R., Green, V. A., Sigafoos, J., Korzilius, H., et al. (2008). The behavior flexibility rating scale-revised (BFRS-R): Factor analysis, internal consistency, inter-rater and intra-rater reliability, and convergent validity. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 29, 398-407. (Pubitemid 351862380)
46. Piazza, C. C., Moes, D. R., & Fisher, W. W. (1996). Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior and demand fading in the treatment of escape-maintained destructive behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 29, 569-572. (Pubitemid 126416517)
47. Pierce, K., & Courchesne, E. (2001). Evidence for a cerebellar role in reduced exploration and stereotyped behavior in autism. Biological Psychiatry, 49, 655-664. (Pubitemid 32328116)
48. Piven, J., Harper, J., Palmer, P., & Arndt, S. (1996). Course of behavioral change in autism: A retrospective study high-IQ adolescents and adults. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 523-539.
49. Pryor, K. W., Haag, R., & O'Reilly, J. (1969). The creative porpoise: Training for novel behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 653-661.
50. Richler, J., Bishop, S., Kleinke, J., & Lord, C. (2007). Restricted and repetitive behaviors in young children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 73-85. (Pubitemid 46197896)
51. Rutter, M. (1978). Diagnosis and definitions of childhood autism. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 8(2), 139-161.
52. Schertz, H. H., & Odom, S. L. (2007). Promoting joint attention in toddlers with autism: A parent-mediated developmental model. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1562.
53. Scruggs, T. E., & Mastropieri, M. A. (1998). Summarizing singlesubject research: Issues and applications. Behavior Modification, 22, 221-242. (Pubitemid 28311970)
54. Sparrow, S., Cicchetti, D., & Balla, D. (2005). Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, second edition: Survey forms manual. Minneapolis, MN: Pearson, Inc.
55. Strain, P. S., Kohler, F. W., & Gresham, F. (1998). Problems in logic and interpretation with quantitative syntheses of single-case research: Mathur and colleagues (1998) as a case in point. Behavioral Disorders, 24(1), 74-85.
56. Szatmari, P., Georgiades, S., Bryson, S., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roberts, W., Mahoney, W., et al. (2006). Investigating the structure of the restricted, repetitive behaviours and interests domain of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(6), 582-590. (Pubitemid 43744789)
57. Turner, M. (1999). Annotation: Repetitive behavior in autism: A review of psychological research. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 839-849. (Pubitemid 29438059)
58. Varni, J. W., Lovaas, O. I., Koegel, R., & Everett, N. (1979). An analysis of observational learning in autistic and normal children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 7, 31-43. (Pubitemid 9233708)
59. Wink, L. K., Erickson, C. A., & McDougle, C. J. (in press). Pharmacologic treatment of behavioral symptoms associated with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. Current Treatment Options in Neurology.