Abstract
This paper presents an experience report on the implementation of the Assessment, Research and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder Laboratory—LAPITEA—in a Brazilian University. The Laboratory aims to develop assessment and intervention methods for children with autism in order to establish social skills such as language, communication, imitation, motor and school repertoires, such as reading and writing, based on a multi-methodological proposal that integrates three different dimensions coming from the science of Psychology: Psychological Evaluation; Applied Behavior Analysis; and consulting and collaboration in School Psychology. The implementation of LAPITEA went through four major steps: 1) selection of children referred by NGOs from parents of individuals with autism; 2) psychological assessment for mapping children’s impaired skills; 3) psychological interventions in Applied Behavior Analysis for the teaching of language and related skills; and 4) monitoring of school inclusion of children with autism through counseling in school psychology to Brazilian elementary and middle schools. It is the focus of this article to describe the characteristics that integrate each one of the stages, including the theoretical-methodological foundation and the operationalization of the dimensions of action. Currently, eleven children are attended in the Laboratory and all show evolution with the proposal of teaching and educational accompaniment offered. The current configuration of advances in school inclusion policies in Brazil encourages the accessibility of the autistic student to the formal education system, from elementary to higher education. These aspects stimulate initiatives by Universities to create teaching, research and extension spaces that seek to corroborate with treatment and follow-up actions in school inclusion with the individual with autism and offer support to teachers of educational institutions with practices of school inclusion.
Highlights
The Brazilian legislation on special education has been offering initiatives for the implementation of intervention proposals to broaden social and school inclusion
This paper presents an experience report on the implementation of the Assessment, Research and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder Laboratory—LAPITEA—in a Brazilian University
The Laboratory aims to develop assessment and intervention methods for children with autism in order to establish social skills such as language, communication, imitation, motor and school repertoires, such as reading and writing, based on a multi-methodological proposal that integrates three different dimensions coming from the science of Psychology: Psychological Evaluation; Applied Behavior Analysis; and consulting and collaboration in School Psychology
Summary
The Brazilian legislation on special education has been offering initiatives for the implementation of intervention proposals to broaden social and school inclusion. Once children with ASD develop prerequisites necessary for the functional use of receptive, expressive language and related skills, it may be possible to change their patterns of functioning in society in a way that they may progressively get close to the patterns exhibited by typical children This shall be relevant for the acquisition of basic capabilities for the learning in the context of school (Galvão & Beckman, 2016; Stichter, Riley-Tillman, & Jimerson, 2016; Souza et al, 2004, Matos, Matos, & Figueiredo, 2017). The initial steps from LAPITEA will be presented, which involves since the organization of space for attending and materials, the selecting criteria of the children along with the NGOs of mothers of individuals with autism, interviews with the family and capacitation of Psychology students to attend the children with ASD based on methodologies from Applied Behavior Analysis
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