MALKA217 Tidlig intervensjon overfor barn med omfattende utviklingsforstyrrelser Emneplan

Emnebeskrivelsen finnes kun på engelsk. Velg engelsk versjon av nettsiden for å se fullstendig emnebeskrivelse.

Admission to the study program

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe the common elements of Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention, and discuss the pros and cons of different service delivery models
• discuss the outcomes reported in the literature, and the quality of the evidence for Early Intensive Behavioral Interventions and other interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• explain important predictors of outcome and describe quality control measures
• discuss the validity of the most commonly employed outcome measures
• describe commonly used assessment instruments
• describe the difference between standardized and non-standardized assessments

Skills

The student can

• demonstrate and monitor Discrete Trial Teaching, Precision Teaching, shaping, chaining, and preference assessments

Competence

The student can

• discuss the application of intervention protocols for teaching listener responding
• discuss the application of Sufficient Exemplar Training
• discuss advanced considerations when teaching vocal imitation, assessments, target selection and procedures for teaching
• apply knowledge of single-case experimental designs in clinical settings, and give examples on how to achieve experimental control

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401, MALK4000-403 and MALKA211 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA212.

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge and competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• differentiate between classical and operant conditioning, and provide examples of interaction between classical and operant conditioning
• describe the contingency in respondent and operant conditioning, and differentiate between contingency and contiguity
• give satisfactory accounts of aspects of concepts in classical conditioning, including reflexes, conditioning procedures and their effectiveness, and experimental methods
• give satisfactory accounts of aspects of concepts in operant conditioning, including reinforcement, punishment, reinforcement schedules, stimulus control, motivating operations, higher order classes, and molar and molecular analyses

Skills

The student can

• distinguish between motivating operations and discriminative control
• differentiate between extinction and forgetting
• decide whether conditioning and extinction has taken place
• interpret data from cumulative records, generalization gradients, histogram, and contingency spaces

Competence

The student can

• evaluate whether a behavior is the result of classical or operant conditioning
• predict whether and how relevant environmental variables might affect the immediate and future probability of behavior
• evaluate whether desired stimulus control is established or not

In the BSCA specialisation, campus-based lectures and seminars are the main teaching methods, in addition to study questions and student presentations. The lectures will partly be based on Interteaching sequences using readings from the curriculum. Texts used for Interteaching are announced in the digital learning platform of the university. In the BSII specialisation, the main teaching method is digital course sequences, and feedback on details of course content, and supervised discussion groups will be available during pre-determined time periods. Feedback on written assignments is used in both specialisations.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 3 individual written assignments submitted digitally, each with maximum 6000 keystrokes

Individual home examination, 4 hours. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

All