How are Meaningful Outcome Measures Developed and Individualized for Profound Autism. matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making.
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Join Free →Each person who faces profound challenges is unique, due to their individual patterns of physical and behavioral strengths and weaknesses, as well as the incredible variation in resources available to each person. As much as their loved ones would give anything for the best possible services, the services themselves may be completely unavailable. Or the loved ones may not yet have conceived of a valuable resource. Therefore an intensive person-centered-planning process is warranted, to identify the full range of potential services and envision the best outcomes for each of these services. Some standardized assessments are based upon statistical averages, which by design ignore the unique variations in the profound range. Individualized, objectively-measured goals are most suited to a person's needs when they are accountable and socially valid. One way to measure criteria for socially valid outcomes is by the person's and their loved one's individual perceptions of their optimal quality of life. When doing so, the behavioral objectives may not always be focused on skill development, they may also be focused on maintenance. A meaningful goal will include both a measure of the person's desired behavior and a specification of the conditions that the person lives in. A provider agency or financial stakeholder can develop an organizational evaluation metric for objectively evaluating the diverse outcomes and the overall success in attaining them.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
| NASW | 1 | — |
| PSY | 1 | — |
Dr. Larsson is the Executive Director of Clinical Services at the Lovaas Institute Midwest, where he implements and researches intensive early intervention services with families of children with autism; with an emphasis on dynamic program management, natural language development, schedules of reinforcement, and generalization of complex social behavior. His Language Matrix Curriculum has been translated into five languages. He is the past President of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Autism Service Providers and Fundación Lovaas in Barcelona, Spain. He is the Chair of the Standards Committee of the Autism Commission on Quality. He has served on the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and as Associate Research Director of the NIMH Multi-site Replication Study of the UCLA Young Autism Project. He is a recipient of the Hemingway Behavior Analysis Award from the BACB, the Provider of the Year Award from Autism Speaks, and the Leadership in Advocacy Award from the California Association for Behavior Analysis.
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