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The Association Between Program Characteristics and Service Delivery in Assertive Community Treatment
The authors describe the relationship between service intensity and staffing, organizational, client, and site characteristics in 19 programs based on the Thresholds Bridge adaptation of the assertive communit...
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Implementing Assertive Community Treatment Programs in Rural Settings
The authors present a controlled evaluation of a rural adaptation of the assertive community treatment (ACT) model for clients with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI). Four community mental health se...
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Rationale for COMPASS
Overview: This chapter describes COMPASS as the first research-supported consultation model for young students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It describes why COMPASS is specialized for ASD, is proactiv...
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Writing Effective Individual Education Programs
Overview: This chapter provides more details that assist with the activities that are described in Chaps. 7 and 8. The consultant facilitates the consultation by guiding the participants in using all the avail...
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Theoretical Background of COMPASS
Overview: This chapter explains the theoretical framework of COMPASS. Also provided is an overview of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definitions of impairment, disability, and handicap and how this conc...
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Other Considerations for the Consultant
Overview: Effective consultation requires attention to many factors outside the immediate consultant–teacher interaction. Chapter 4 reviews influences on the consultation and coaching processes and identifies ...
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From Consultation to Coaching: Implementing Plans and Monitoring Progress
Overview: This chapter covers the essential components of teacher coaching. The importance of follow-up sessions from the initial COMPASS consultation is described and coaching is defined. Also provided are pr...
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Evaluating Your Knowledge of ASD
Overview: This chapter discusses content knowledge and process skills needed by the COMPASS consultant. Various types of training and the competencies achieved from the training are discussed. A self-evaluatio...
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COMPASS Consultation Action Plan: Step B
Overview: Chapter 7 covers Step B of the COMPASS consultation process and provides forms and handouts used to conduct the consultation.
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COMPASS Case Studies
Overview: Chap. 9 provides case study examples of the COMPASS consultation and coaching procedural steps for three children with autism spectrum disorder who vary by age, cognitive functioning level, verbal sk...
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COMPASS Consultation Action Plan: Step A
Overview: This chapter covers Step A of the COMPASS Consultation Action Plan, which is conducted prior to the consultation. This information will inform the framework for the student’s personalized COMPASS pro...
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Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure in Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychosocial Interventions in Autism
Goal attainment scaling (GAS) holds promise as an idiographic approach for measuring outcomes of psychosocial interventions in community settings. GAS has been criticized for untested assumptions of scaling le...
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Teacher and Child Predictors of Achieving IEP Goals of Children with Autism
It is encouraging that children with autism show a strong response to early intervention, yet more research is needed for understanding the variability in responsiveness to specialized programs. Treatment pred...
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Efficacy of COMPASS
In this chapter we report results from our two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of COMPASS. The goal of our first RCT was to conduct a proof of concept study. We wanted to demonstrate the efficacy of COMPAS...
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Child Internal and External Factors
In our prior chapters, we described what we have learned about our implementation practice and intervention practice in terms of quality and internal and external factors and investigated the potential impact ...
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Overview of Evidence Based Practices in Psychology and Implementation Science
The chapter provides an overview, brief critique, and description of how COMPASS fits within the Evidence Based Practices in Psychology (EBPP) framework. We also describe the models that guided the development...
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COMPASS Practice Outcome: Idiographic Assessment and Development of a Measure
One critical challenge to educators and to researchers is how to assess progress for group comparison designs when children have different goals, different stating baseline levels, and different intervention p...
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COMPASS Implementation Quality
COMPASS is comprised of two distinct, but related implementation practice activities—the initial consultation and the follow-up teacher coaching activities. Both are designed to empower parents and teachers as...
