Research on evidence-based methodologies is conducted to expand skills of children with autism. Among the skills, which might be considered important for development, the literature emphasizes functional play. In many children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the repertoire related to play is impaired and specialized treatment may address the issue by designing individualized procedures based on one-to-one interactions. Discrete trial teaching may help establishing such repertoire in a structured setting and generalization goals must be delineated to increase the likelihood with which the learned skills will emerge in new environments, such as the classroom, the home and other natural contexts. Thus, it is important that skills be shown in places where other people participate. Principles from Educational Psychology are also relevant in the advisory process to professionals related, for example, to school settings in order to favor inclusion of children with ASD to school routine and the relationship with peers. People related to these educational environments should become knowledgeable of evidence-based procedures in order to increase, with their help, generalization of previously established skills in more structured contexts. This paper assessed the efficacy of a structured intervention with functional play activities in three 4-year-old children with autism or suspect. A binder with pictures depicting actions with the components of each of four or two toy sets was used as resource to orient the target-responses of the study. Correct responses, under the control of pictures, produced access to tokens exchangeable for preferred items.
A Psicologia Escolar, como área de intervenção, pesquisa e apoio à formação de estudantes para o campo de trabalho, tem a Orientação Profissional (OP) como um dos seus temas de interesse tradicionais. Nessa direção, este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer a percepção e a atuação de psicólogas escolares sobre o processo de escolha profissional de alunos do Ensino Médio em dois colégios privados de São Luís – MA. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de caráter qualitativo em que os procedimentos envolveram entrevistas com psicólogas e o instrumento utilizado para a construção de informações foi a aplicação de três questionários semiabertos. Os resultados demonstram que as entrevistadas percebem a importância da OP como disciplina integrante da educação formal e a relevância de sua atuação como mediadoras nos processos subjetivos e sociais dos seus discentes. Reitera-se que outros estudos são necessários para ampliar o conhecimento sobre as possíveis contribuições do psicólogo escolar em relação ao papel da escola na trajetória dos sujeitos que no futuro servirão a sociedade por intermédio de suas profissões.
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