Although once considered untreatable, findings published by Lovaas1 in 1987 suggested that with
intensive intervention using applied behavioral analysis, some children may experience a degree of improvement.
Successful implementation of
intensive intervention using data - based individualization (DBI) is more likely to occur in schools that have a well - functioning tiered system of support, commonly called a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), response to intervention (RTI), or positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), depending on your location and area of focus.
Tier 3:
Intensive Intervention Using a Force Field Analysis Tier 3 interventions are designed for roughly 5 % of all students, or students with significant learning challenges who require the highest level of instructional support.
Not exact matches
A meta - analysis of American
interventions with very young fathers points to quality
intensive community - based
interventions with a good understanding of gender: the staff (who were experienced, empathetic, enthusiastic, and well connected into their communities) partnered with community organisations and
used incentives to draw the young men in; they utilized needs assessments and participant feedback; developed one - on - one relationships with their young clients and provided mentoring; offered a comprehensive array of services delivered in engaging and interactive ways which incorporated teaching methods and materials appropriate to young men's culture, sex and age.
If governments want RDTs to effectively target the
use of ACTs and avoid their misuse, then they must be supported by varieties of
intensive and sustained
interventions aimed at changing the behaviour of health providers and the expectations of patients and their families.»
«I believe that with
intensive integrated
intervention using this EcoHealth / One Health approach, we can eliminate the entire infection within 10 years,» he says.
New research
using data from the reputable Look AHEAD study suggests doctors may want to look at results from a patient's first two months of
intensive lifestyle
intervention (ILI) to help predict his or her long - term success.
All participants were enrolled in an
intensive behavioral lifestyle
intervention that included frequent treatment meetings and a prescription for specific physical activity and dietary goals, including the
use of meal replacements.
«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in
intensive lifestyle
intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful
using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an
intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot
intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary
intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)
1935 Effects of the high carbohydrate - low calorie diet upon carbohydrate tolerance in diabetes mellitus 1955 Low - fat diet and therapeutic doses of insulin in diabetes mellitus 1958 Effect of rice diet on diabetes mellitus associated with vascular disease 1976 Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men 1977 Effect of carbohydrate restriction and high carbohydrates diets on men with chemical diabetes 1979 High - carbohydrate, high - fiber diets for insulin - treated men with diabetes mellitus 1981 High carbohydrate high in fibre diet in diabetes 1982 Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an
intensive program of diet and exercise 1983 Long - term
use of a high - complex - carbohydrate, high - fiber, low - fat diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM patients 1994 Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: the need for early emphasis 1999 Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot
intervention using a lowfat, vegetarian diet 2005 The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary
intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity 2006 A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes 2006 Effect of short ‐ term Pritikin diet therapy on the metabolic syndrome 2009 A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial
If present evidence is to be
used, two potent contributions to raising student achievement will be widespread: effective preschool programs for all children and
intensive interventions that build capacities of families to support the education of their children.
This is important information that is
used to ensure that core instruction and more
intensive interventions are integrated across the tiers.
A data guided, tiered student support system that
uses early warning indicators and an integrated system of whole school, targeted and
intensive supports to get the right
intervention, to the right student, at the right time at the scale and intensity required (along with rapid recovery options when this does not work).
For those students who need a more
intensive intervention plan, Edmentum Accucess can be
used.
Eighth - graders will begin taking it this fall, and the district plans to
use the results to identify which students are in need of the most
intensive interventions, Superintendent Jane Belmore said.
By: Rachel Brown, Ph.D., NCSP As the
use of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) has become more widespread in schools, terms such as tiers, benchmarks, universal instruction, as well as strategic and
intensive intervention have become familiar to many...
As the
use of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) has become more widespread in schools, terms such as tiers, benchmarks, universal instruction, as well as strategic and
intensive intervention have become familiar to many teachers.
In previous blog posts, we have described how a Multi-Tier System of Supports, or MTSS, can be
used to determine which students are in need of additional, more
intensive,
interventions.
For this reason, when evidence - based instruction is not available for additional
intensive instruction (i.e.,
intervention), short - term
use and progress monitoring with a scientifically - based program might be justified.
It can also be
used as a resource for instructional specialists and special education teachers who are searching for broad guidelines on the design and delivery of
intensive interventions.
Chris Lemons:
Intensive interventions are
interventions that require professionals to make decisions
using data to improve instruction for individual students that have not responded to standard protocol at Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Led by a nationally recognized educator, this
intensive training focuses on improving every step of the instructional cycle, from breaking down standards and building the best CFAs to
using data to plan meaningful
interventions.
The quality and fidelity of Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports, the
use of valid and reliable progress monitoring measures, and the implementation of data - based decision rules and data meeting structures essential to MTSS set the foundation for successful implementation of
intensive intervention through DBI.
Results are
used to provide
intensive interventions for struggling adolescent readers.
behavior report forms, problem solving protocols, conduct cards, and learning contracts that can be
used in conjunction with teacher - student conferencing and more
intensive interventions; and
Using Achieve3000's built - in reports, administrators can then work with teachers to develop a data - driven plan that identifies which students need more
intensive instruction and targets the specific skills or standards that need to be re-taught or reinforced, so that all struggling students can get the
intervention they need exactly when and how they need it.
This document introduces and describes the DBI process and how it can be
used to support students who require
intensive intervention in academics and / or behavior.
SARBs chosen as models were recognized for positive approaches to
intervention, such as meeting protocols in which members listened objectively to referred students and families to assess barriers to attendance and
used innovative,
intensive solutions for the more serious cases.
RTI does not specify the
interventions that a school must
use but endorses increasingly
intensive instruction — from Tier 1 to 3 — if the first
interventions do not prove effective.
For students who fall below grade - level proficiency and are in need of more
intensive intervention, Accucess can be
used as a tier 3 solution.
Assessment is
used to identify students for more
intensive interventions and for choosing the
interventions.
When
used carefully within a problem - solving process, very few students will require
intensive intervention.
Intensive intervention is an important tool that educators can
use to address the learning needs of students with significant learning deficits.
Although
using the «replacement core» approach for
intensive intervention is an effective way to individualize instruction, it also requires that additional teachers be available to provide such instruction.
It may be necessary to
use intensive medical therapy for serious side effects of the disease or even surgical
intervention in really severe cases of pancreatitis.
respond to the needs identified locally and
use intensive intervention when needed (coordinated centrally by FaCSIA and ICCs where relevant);
Less -
intensive interventions that provide parent training also may be useful for younger children with ASDs, particularly for improving social communication, language
use, and, potentially, symptom severity and family functioning, but the current evidence base for such treatment remains insufficient.17, 18,27 Although parent - training programs can modify parenting behaviors during interactions, data are limited about their contribution to specific improvements in the short - term and long - term beyond simple language gains for some children.
Dr. Brown's research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth with hemophilia: Theory,
intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in
intensive psychiatric treatment; Heroin
use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review
«A few studies have examined the utility of offering more
intensive parent training
interventions as universal supports to help parents get positively involved with their child's school, to reduce the
use of punitive discipline practices, and to increase the
use of positive management strategies at home.
In addition, many of the early
intervention programs that have been shown to have positive treatment effects are resource
intensive and target high - risk families, on the basis of socioeconomic status, childhood disabilities, parental substance
use, or child maltreatment.1
Using this framework helps to ensure that
interventions are incremental, moving from class - based
interventions to more
intensive and individualised support, and that they are informed by careful monitoring of progress.
Family Consultation is a brief family
intervention model
used in adult mental health services that responds to family's expressed needs and often provides a «gateway» to the more
intensive FPE
interventions.6
More recently, we (Lavigne et al., 2007) conducted a study comparing a minimal
intervention involving bibliotherapy and no therapist contact with a moderately
intensive, 12 - session parent training program (Webster - Stratton, 1997)
using two models for linking primary care to mental health services: an «office» model in which services were provided by primary care nurses, and a «referral» model, in which pediatric psychologists provided treatment.
FAIR is an
intensive community - based treatment model that integrates components of two evidence - based behavioral
interventions: 1) Parent Management Training (PMT; Patterson & Forgatch, 2010) developed at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) to increase parenting skills, teach and support positive family interactions, and address mental health problems; and 2) Reinforcement Based Therapy a community reinforcement approach of contingency management (RBT; Jones et al., 2005) to address adult substance
use.
From the National Center on
Intensive Intervention, this set of resources and sample materials for implementing behavioral strategies was developed for classroom teachers to
use with students who may require academic and / or behavioral support.
Its
intensive treatments included some of the components typically
used to address peer difficulties: medication, an
intensive summer treatment program in which social skills, cooperative tasks, and friendship - building skills were taught, but these
interventions were administered only in the short - term (8 weeks), not throughout the 14 months of treatment.
Given the limited improvement typically obtained in treatment studies that
use peer report measures as outcomes with ADHD samples and the well - documented predictive validity of peer reports for later adjustment, the need for more
intensive interventions and novel approaches to address the peer problems of children with ADHD is emphasized.