• Social Communication Challenges:

- Assessment Result: Difficulty initiating or sustaining conversations, understanding nonverbal cues.

 

- EBP: Social Skills Training (SST) – Targeting specific communication goals, such as turn-taking and reading facial expressions.

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• Behavioral Challenges:

- Assessment Result: Exhibits disruptive behaviors or struggles with transitions.

 

- EBP: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) – Use of positive reinforcement strategies to decrease problem behaviors and teach adaptive behaviors.

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• Repetitive Behaviors or Restricted Interests:

- Assessment Result: Engages in repetitive movements, focuses narrowly on specific interests.

 

- EBP: Behavioral Interventions – Implementing functional behavior assessments (FBAs) and teaching replacement behaviors.

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• Sensory Processing Issues:

- Assessment Result: Over- or under-reactive to sensory stimuli (e.g., noise, textures).

 

- EBP: Sensory Integration Therapy – Developing tolerance and adaptive responses to sensory input in structured settings.

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• Executive Functioning Deficits:

- Assessment Result: Struggles with organization, planning, and flexibility.

 

- EBP: Visual Supports (e.g., visual schedules, task analysis) – Helping students manage tasks, transitions, and expectations.​

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• Academic Skills Deficits:

- Assessment Result: Below-grade-level performance in reading, math, or writing.

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- EBP: Direct Instruction – Structured, explicit teaching techniques to address academic gaps.​

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• Emotional Regulation Challenges:

- Assessment Result: Difficulty managing frustration, anxiety, or anger.

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- EBP: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Teaching coping strategies and self-regulation skills for emotional management.​

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• Difficulty with Peer Interactions:

- Assessment Result: Challenges in making or maintaining friendships.

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- EBP: Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention (PMII) – Training peers to engage and support social interaction skills.

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• Limited Functional Play Skills:

- Assessment Result: Does not engage in age-appropriate play or struggles with imaginative play.

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- EBP: Pivotal Response Training (PRT) – Encouraging play through motivation and reinforcing natural learning opportunities.​

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• Language Processing Issues:

- Assessment Result: Delayed or impaired language development, challenges with comprehension or expressive language.

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- EBP: Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) or Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) – Teaching alternative ways to communicate needs effectively.