Treating Food Refusal & Selectivity - Part 2
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For understanding how assessment informs feeding intervention choices, Christine Austin's recorded Part 2 reviews food refusal and selectivity in children with autism. She examines escape extinction packages, parent participation, and medical and ethical considerations, alongside the simpler approaches reviewed from Part 1.
Presenter biographies: Christine Austin.
Austin reviews indirect feeding questionnaires, descriptive observations, food preference assessments, and mealtime functional analysis before examining intervention packages.
The main discussion examines escape extinction with differential reinforcement and parent implementation studies, including possible increases in problem behavior, aversive mealtimes, and limited social validity evidence.
The closing sections address medical team involvement, informed consent, monitoring, internal review, and research gaps in autism-specific replications and single-subject studies.
What does this recording cover?
- Austin compares indirect questionnaires, descriptive analysis, and direct food preference assessments.
- The review distinguishes escape, attention, and tangible conditions in mealtime functional analysis.
- Parent implementation studies examine escape extinction combined with differential reinforcement.
- The ethical discussion addresses informed consent, team involvement, and review of intervention data.
Recording context: The recording's date is unconfirmed, and its literature review describes a 2010 study as recent.
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Meet the Presenters
Clinic Director at Step By Step Academy, a position she has held since 2009, where she previously served as Training and Behavior Plan Supervisor,Outreach and Training Coordinator, Program Supervisor/Outreach Support Technician and Behavior Technician.
Christine regularly publishes and presents at professional conferences on the topic of autism and behavioral support. Her areas of expertise include ABA, training, individual education plans (IEPs), treatment planning and behavior modification and behavior management. She has a BA in Psychology and minor in Sociology from Ohio State University. Now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Christine trained in Applied Behavior Analysis with the University of North Texas and is certified in Crisis Prevention.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
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