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Sara White
MemberBehavior Interventionist Needed Surrey (Beer Creek Area)
Home team looking for a BI to implement a home-based behavior intervention program, working with a fun & loving 7-yr old boy.
Current program focus is on: communication, pre-academic, self-help, community outings.
Although experience is desired; this is not essential. Those with a background in Psychology or related disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Training and supervision will be provided by Dr. Sarah White (BCBA-D).
Applicants must:
Be fun and engaging!
Motivated to learn.
Be at least 19yrs old.
Have a clear criminal record check.
Be reliable.
Be willing to commit to 12-months minimum.
Be available for team meetings.We are looking for a reliable BI to provide up to 4 hours per session preferably 2 afternoon sessions a week or on weekends. Attendance to team meetings is also required.
Compensation will be based on experience.
To apply for this position, please email a copy of your resume and cover letter to sumerarafiq@hotmail.comMemberBehaviour Interventionist (BI) / Education Assistant (EA)
We are looking for an energetic Behaviour Interventionist (BI) to work with our cheerful and friendly child in our well-established ABA home team. There is potential for this position to lead into a full-time EA position with our child at a private school in the Lower Mainland.
The successful applicant would receive training immediately in our home under the supervision of our Team Lead Instructor, current EA, and BCBA-D (Dr. Sara White).
Previous ABA experience, EA/Support Worker experience, and/or experience working in a school environment or ABA home team are an asset.
Hourly wage will depend on background and experience. Annual increases will be considered.
Compensation for the potential EA position will be competitive and include benefits (in accordance with an employment agreement with the school).
Requirements:
At least 19 years old
Cleared criminal record check and references
Fluent in English
Non-smoker
Minimum 1 year commitment
Must attend monthly team meetings in our home
Please forward cover letter and resumé to: abateam@hotmail.comMemberWhile it is very powerful … looks can be deceiving. If you go the National Autism Associations website it is plastered with adds for vitamin therapies and the research that they support is related to Mercury Exposure and GI issues. You may still choose to support it, but just be aware of what you are supporting.
MemberHi everyone. We (the Autism Society of BC) are trying to get an informational website for siblings of children with autism. In order to make sure that we're doing something that's of interest/will be used be siblings we've decided to start with a survey. Below are two links (one for parents and one for siblings). I would appreciate it if you would take the time to respond and/or get your child to respond too.
Parent:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aEiYBv776sO_2bmLRdBaXWOw_3d_3d
Sibling:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=B9El5oCCux8kbQ1NGvE09Q_3d_3d
Thanks so much!
Sara White, PhD, BCBAMemberVery interesting article came out in New Scientist today related to the MMR debate. Thought you all would be interested.
Sara
Autism Rises Despite MMR Ban In Japan
[By Andy Coghlan.]
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18524895.300
Parents need have no more fears about the triple vaccine against
measles, mumps and rubella. A study of more than 30,000 children in Japan
should put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that the MMR vaccine is
responsible for the apparent rise in autism in recent years. The study shows that in the city of Yokohama the number of children
with autism continued to rise after the MMR vaccine was replaced with single
vaccines. "The findings… are resoundingly negative," says Hideo Honda of
the Yokohama Rehabilitation Center. In the UK, parents panicked and vaccination rates plummeted after
gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield claimed in a 1998 study that MMR might
trigger autism, although the study was based on just 12 children and later
retracted by most of its co-authors. Soon the vaccine was being blamed for
the apparent rise in autism, with Wakefield citing data from California (see
Graph). In some parts of the UK, the proportion of children receiving both
doses of the MMR vaccine has dropped to 60 per cent. This has led to a rise
in measles outbreaks and fears of an epidemic. Not one epidemiological study has revealed a link between the vaccine
and autism. But until now they have all concentrated on what happened after
MMR vaccination for children was introduced. Honda's is the first to look at
the autism rate after the MMR vaccine has been withdrawn. Japan withdrew it
in April 1993 following reports that the anti-mumps component was causing
meningitis (it plans to introduce another version). With his colleagues Yasuo Shimizu and Michael Rutter of the Institute
of Psychiatry in London, Honda looked at the records of 31,426 children born
in one district of Yokohama between 1988 and 1996. The team counted children
diagnosed as autistic by the age of 7. They found the cases continued to
multiply after the vaccine withdrawal, ranging from 48 to 86 cases per
10,000 children before withdrawal to 97 to 161 per 10,000 afterwards. The
same pattern was seen with a particular form of autism in which children
appear to develop normally and then suddenly regress – the form linked to
MMR by Wakefield. The study cannot rule out the possibility that MMR triggers autism in
a tiny number of children, as some claim, but it does show there is no
large-scale effect. The vaccine "cannot have caused autism in the many
children with autism spectrum disorders in Japan who were born and grew up
in the era when MMR was not available", Honda concludes. His team's findings
appear in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (DOI:
10.1111.j.1469-7610.2005.01425.x). So if the vaccine is not responsible for the rising rates of autism,
what is? "Clearly some environmental factors are causing the increases,"
says Irva Hertz-Picciotto of the University of California at Davis. Other
experts disagree, saying the apparent rise could be the result of changing
diagnostic criteria and the rising profile of the disorder (New Scientist,
17 February 2001, p 17). From issue 2489 of New Scientist magazine, 05 March 2005, page 16MemberOne more point on the Sheinkopf and Seigel article … they didn't find nearly the 'recovery' rate that was found in the original Lovaas study. I'm not saying that more hours is the key to success, but I just wanted to let people know what's out there in the scientific literature. Bottom line is that you have to do the best you can for your child given the means that you have (at least while the services being funded as they are now). Like Michelle said, hopefully after next week parents won't have to worry about making this type of decision anymore!
MemberNancy,
Your information is exactly correct. I don't believe that the data
that you're referring to has been published yet, but I'm sure it
will be in the near future. The research that Dr. Smith has been
doing at Rochester resulted in fewer hours on average per week.
They scheduled for 40, but wound up with fewer on average due
to illness, cancellations, etc. They did find a lower 'recovery' rate
and in a conversation that I had with him, he did state that it
may have been due to the lower number of hours. However, as
there is no data directly comparing 40 hours to 25, 30 or 35
hours there's really no way of knowing if the difference was due
to the number of hours or due to any other number of possible
factors (i.e., level of cognitive functioning, language ability prior
to intervention, parental involvement in program, etc.).Sara
MemberTony,
As far as I know there have not been any studies directly comparing 25 hours to 40 hours per week of ABA therapy. I saw Dr. Smith present last year at a conference and he talked about all of the most recent data (so up to 2003) and while he had data on 25 to 35 hours per week of ABA versus some sort of control group (which varied by study), nothing directly comparing 25 hours per week to 40 hours per week of ABA. I wish there were more data to be found in this area, but I'm pretty sure that what you're looking for just hasn't been studied.
If you are interested in any of the articles comparing 25 to 35 hours per week to control groups let me know and I can forward you the citations or the articles.
Sara White
sarawhite@excite.comMemberTony,
As far as I know there have not been any studies directly comparing 25 hours to 40 hours per week of ABA therapy. I saw Dr. Smith present last year at a conference and he talked about all of the most recent data (so up to 2003) and while he had data on 25 to 35 hours per week of ABA versus some sort of control group (which varied by study), nothing directly comparing 25 hours per week to 40 hours per week of ABA. I wish there were more data to be found in this area, but I'm pretty sure that what you're looking for just hasn't been studied.
If you are interested in any of the articles comparing 25 to 35 hours per week to control groups let me know and I can forward you the citations or the articles.
Sara White
sarawhite@excite.comMemberOne of the best CD's that I've seen for stimuli is "Picture This!". The pictures are relatively good quality and there are usually multiple pictures of each stimuli (good for generalization). I believe you can get it at Different Roads to Learning, but I'm not 100% sure. It doesn't have absoultely everything, but it probably has 100-150 pictures of objects, verbs, prepositions, shapes, etc.
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