EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION OF AUTISTIC CHILD

Development and evaluation of global child health educational modules.

OBJECTIVES To determine if a standardized global child health (GCH) modular course for pediatric residents leads to satisfaction, learning, and behavior change. METHODS Four 1-hour interactive GCH modules were developed addressing priority GCH topics. "Site champions" from 4 Canadian institutions delivered modules to pediatric residents from their respective programs during academic half-days...

Brief report: morality in the autistic child.

Resilience in Families with an Autistic Child

The primary aim of this study was to identify characteristics and resources that families have that enable them to adapt successfully and be resilient despite the presence of an autistic child in the family. The study was rooted within the contextual framework of the Resilience Model of Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation of McCubbin and McCubbin (1996). Parents of 34 families whose children atte...

Catatonia in a child with autistic disorder.

Catatonia is a cluster of motor features that appears in many recognized psychiatric illnesses. It is being increasingly reported in individuals with autism, a disorder characterized by impaired reciprocal social interactions, aberrant language development and restricted behavioral repertoire. However, relatively little is known about the presentation and treatment of catatonia in children with...

Teaching an autistic child pedestrian skills.

An autistic child was taught pedestrian skills in a classroom by use of a model of the streets and the intersection she most often frequented. She manipulated a doll and verbalized what the doll was doing to get to the designated location. After mastering the pedestrian skills on the model, video recordings familiarized her with traffic at local intersections. She successfully generalized the p...