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✔✔Purpose of Person Centered Planning - ✔✔ongoing problem solving process used
to help ppl w disabilities plan for the future:
-To look at the ind a different way
-To assist the focus person in gaining control of their own life
-To increase opportunities for participation in the community
-To recognize individual desires, interests & dreams
-Through team effort, develop a plan to turn dreams into reality.
✔✔Who is involved in Person Centered Planning? - ✔✔The focus person & whoever
they would like. Works best when there is an unbiased facilitator & a person to record
what is shared. Family members, professionals, friends, etc may be invited.
✔✔Steps of Person Centered Planning: Profiling - ✔✔1. Develop a history for focus
person. (Background, critical events, medical issues, major developments, important
relationships)
2. Description of quality of life for FP. (Comm participation, comm presence,
choices/rights, respect & competence)
3. Personal preferences of FP. (Preferred activities, things they do not like)
✔✔Person Centered Planning Meeting - ✔✔1. Review the profile. Make comments &
observations
2. Review trends/ongoing events in the environment.
3. Share visions for the future to increase opportunities.
4. ID obstacles & opportunities, things that could make vision a reality
5. ID strategies: action steps for implementation
6. Getting started: ID action steps that can be done in a short time.
7. ID the need for service delivery to be more responsive to ind needs.
✔✔Who was Hans Asperger? - ✔✔20th century, Austrian Pediatrician who published a
profile in 1944 of four boys with a specific pattern of bx: "autisitic psychopathy".
, ✔✔Characteristics of Aspergers (1944) - ✔✔"lack of empathy, little ability to form
friendships, one-sided conversations, intense absorption in a special interest & clumsy
movements."
✔✔Why "little professors"? - ✔✔Ability to discussed preferred interest in great detail.
✔✔The term "Asperger Syndrome" was coined by: - ✔✔Lorna Wing, a British
Researcher in 1981 in her research to counter Kanner's findings on Autism.
✔✔Asperger's work was: - ✔✔More positive and refuted the original definition of Autism
found in Leo Kanner's research. May have been geared positively to help people w this
disability avoid execution by Nazis.
Not broadly known or translated from German until 80s.
✔✔John Watson - ✔✔1913, IDed observable bx as proper subject matter for
psychology & that all bx is controlled by environmental events.
Laid out Stimulus-Response psychology that led to behaviorism.
✔✔BF Skinner - ✔✔Distinguished between Pavlov's respondent conditioning
(conditioned reflexes) & operant conditioning (consequence of bx controls future
occurrence of bx).
✔✔Basic principles of Bx by Skinner (& others) - ✔✔Reinforcement
-Prompting
-Fading
-Shaping
-Schedules of Rx
(Principles are the pure science, not the applied science.)
-Principles used to describe how bx is lawful, observable, measurable & has an impact
on the environment.
✔✔Ivar Lovaas - ✔✔1960s-worked on the ME book, laying out teaching of applied bx
analysis. Laid out curriculum of programs, teaching sequence & how to teach them.
(Early modality of ABA).
Originally included aversives in practice, later took them out for ethical reasons/
criticisms.
Revised to publish Teaching Individuals w Developmental Delays:Basic Intervention
Techniques.