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Pivotal Response Treatment

Basic Characteristics

• Description

Pivotal Response Treatment is based upon the idea that a few pivotal behaviors exist which, when changed, will result in large changes in other behaviors as well.²

• Pivotal Response Treatment and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Children with autism have a number of behaviors which require treatment. Studies which identified behaviors unique to each participant to improve upon using Pivotal Response Treatment showed that high-functioning teenagers were able to modify their social communicative behaviors during conversational interactions following training.¹

Neuroimaging

Tests to Measure Joint Attention

Concerns

Interventions

References

1.Koegel RI et. a. Treatment of social behavior in autism through the modification of pivotal social skills.J Appl Behav Anal. 1993 Fall;26(3):369-77. PMID 8407685

2. | Wikipedia:Pivotal Response Treatment

Related Information

• Tasks or Tests to Measure Joint Attention

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• CNP Level (What's this?)
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External Resources

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  • Wikipedia: Joint Attention
  • Google: Joint Attention
  • PubMed: Joint Attention
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