Beyond Trial Counts: Considerations for Measuring Play and Engagement During Early Intervention for Autistic Children.

IF 2.1 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Behavior Analysis in Practice Pub Date : 2024-10-11 eCollection Date: 2024-12-01 DOI:10.1007/s40617-024-01002-3

Tracy J Raulston, Ciara L Ousley, Emily M Hinton, Andrea M Ramirez

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Play is critical to child development. In early childhood, object play evolves from exploratory behavior to complex symbolic play. Engagement during play, particularly joint engagement, is essential for learning and social interaction. Board Certified Behavior Analysts® (BCBAs) who provide early intervention services to young autistic children may experience barriers when designing programming and data collection systems for play and engagement. In this paper, we compare Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention (NDBI) and Natural Environment Teaching (NET) approaches. Considerations for measuring object play and engagement during naturalistic play routines are presented. We encourage BCBAs to consider simple frequency counts when measuring object play actions and interval recording or rating scales for tracking engagement states. These methods may better accommodate the variability in play and engagement behavior, allow for more flexible play routines, and support a more nuanced analysis of child progress.

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超越试验计数：在自闭症儿童早期干预中测量游戏和参与的考虑。

游戏对儿童的发展至关重要。在幼儿时期，客体游戏从探索性行为演变为复杂的符号游戏。游戏中的参与，特别是共同参与，对于学习和社会互动至关重要。委员会认证行为分析师®（bcba）为年幼的自闭症儿童提供早期干预服务，在设计游戏和参与的编程和数据收集系统时可能会遇到障碍。本文比较了自然主义发展行为干预（NDBI）和自然环境教学（NET）两种教学方法。在自然游戏过程中测量物体游戏和参与的考虑。我们鼓励bcba在测量目标游戏动作时考虑简单的频率计数，在跟踪用户粘性状态时考虑间隔记录或评级量表。这些方法可以更好地适应游戏和参与行为的可变性，允许更灵活的游戏程序，并支持对儿童进步的更细致的分析。

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Behavior Analysis in Practice PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： Behavior Analysis in Practice, an official journal of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, is a peer-reviewed translational publication designed to provide science-based, best-practice information relevant to service delivery in behavior analysis. The target audience includes front-line service workers and their supervisors, scientist-practitioners, and school personnel. The mission of Behavior Analysis in Practice is to promote empirically validated best practices in an accessible format that describes not only what works, but also the challenges of implementation in practical settings. Types of articles and topics published include empirical reports describing the application and evaluation of behavior-analytic procedures and programs; discussion papers on professional and practice issues; technical articles on methods, data analysis, or instrumentation in the practice of behavior analysis; tutorials on terms, procedures, and theories relevant to best practices in behavior analysis; and critical reviews of books and products that are aimed at practitioners or consumers of behavior analysis.