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“Both parents and professionals who work with young children
CHILDR EN AND AUTISM
Cipa ni
with autism should read this book.”
—Temple Grandin, author
Stories of Triumph a nd Hope Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
E n n io Cipa ni, Ph D
“In any discussion or material on autism the mere mention of the word “cure” elicits neck hairs to
rise…Cipani provides substantial and well presented material that demonstrates how early intensive
behavioral treatment (EIBT) has emerged as the most reliable, feasible and evidence based therapeutic
modality in addressing the myriad social, intellectual and communicative maladaptions evident in
children on the autism spectrum.”
—Rick Rader, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Exceptional Parent Magazine Stories of Triumph a nd Hope
C hildren and Autism presents seven heartwarming and compelling stories of children who
have triumphed over the challenge of autism. These are not stories of easy or simple remedies,
and there is no cure for autism. But there are instances of “best outcomes” where in the end the
autistic child is indistinguishable from their same-age peers. These are their stories. Parents can
draw hope and inspiration from these stories while also realizing that dedication, hard work, and
perseverance are key elements to success.
While these seven stories are the heart and soul of the book, Children and Autism offers more than
just that. The book opens with a section on what autism and applied behavior analysis (ABA) are.
It closes with a comprehensive resource section that helps parents locate ABA resources, provides
definitions, and offers advice on applying practices in the home.
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Contents
Introduction vii
Contributors xiii
1. In the Beginning 1
2. What Is Applied Behavior Analysis? 7
3. Diamond in the Rough 23
4. Maggie Mae 57
5. Hey, Look, It’s a Train! 69
6. Good Golly Miss Molly! 83
7. The Case of Nicholas B. 99
8. A Parent’s Story: Jake and Nick 121
9. Why Artie Can’t Learn! 145
v
Introduction
vii
viii INTRODUCTION
that were age appropriate and socially appropriate. As you will read,
some of the parents of the children in these stories were previously
told by professionals to not expect much in the way of progress. It is
fortunate that these parents did not give up hope but rather proceeded
to find out how their child’s lives could be improved. As a result, these
dire predictions did not come true.
If you have a child with autism, you are probably familiar with the
symptoms and problems that afflict children with this diagnosis. Chil-
dren with autism display the following three major characteristics
before the age of three1:
• A qualitative impairment in social interaction
• A qualitative impairment in communication
• Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior,
interests, and activities
One of the most glaring issues with these children is their failure to
develop appropriate social relations with others. For example, a parent
may notice that their 6-month-old daughter does not smile back at them
when they smile at her. They may also notice that their child does not seem
to experience any joy, as other infants do when intrigued by something or
someone. On the other hand, as a toddler, their son fails to take any
interest in their presence and does not respond to his name by looking
toward the speaker. As a young child, he does not interact with others,
including adults, other children, and even his own siblings. Whereas
nondisabled toddlers and young children show delight when seeing their
parent after a brief time away from them and are delighted upon their
return, such is not the case with parents of children with autism. Upon see-
ing their parent, the child may simply continue with his or her activity or
fascination with an object he or she is engaged with. The child’s response
to his or her parents and others continues to be plagued with unemotional
detachment throughout his or her early and middle development.
Nondisabled children take great joy in sharing events and activities
with others, often saying such things as, “Look at____.” Also, their atten-
tion to someone else who initiates such an attention-getting phrase
immediately engages them. This has been referred to as joint attention
and is noticeably absent in children with autism.
1 Taken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-IV-TR, APA, 2000, p. 75.
INTRODUCTION ix
Leave me alone
Let us say that we have assembled a room full of preschool-aged
children. As we observe these children, some are playing together.
A few are playing by themselves, imagining that the toy blocks
they put together form a castle for the king and queen. All of the
children seem engrossed in their play activity except one child.
This child is alone in the corner. He does not have a toy, book, or
other item used in a play activity. Nevertheless, he is engaged in
something. You watch him closely and you see he repetitively
picks up the carpet corner (which is detached from the floor) and
lets it fall to the terrazzo floor. When it hits the floor, it makes a
sound like “plop.” He is totally engrossed by the sound it makes.
One child comes over to him and says, “What are you doing,” in an
inquisitive manner. He is unresponsive and continues to be
intrigued by the action-reaction produced. Not getting any social
response from this boy, the other child goes off and finds another
child to play with. The boy in the corner continues the repetitive
activity with the carpet for the entire play period.
During story time, this child does not seem interested in the
colorful book or what the teacher is saying. He gets up multiple
times and attempts to go back to the corner of the room where
the carpet corner is unhinged from the flooring. He seems to be
unnerved that the source of his entertainment during the morning
is not available to him. The teacher’s helpers bring him back to
the circle area to be involved in the activity, but to no avail. While
other children volunteer information about the story, this child
seems oblivious to this activity and disinterested as well.
2 Although the overwhelming majority of the children in EIBT efforts improve a number of
behaviors and gain skills in language, social, and pre-academic areas, only a certain percentage
achieve best outcome status and become indistinguishable from their same-age peers, as in the
case of these seven individuals in the book.
x INTRODUCTION
xiii
xiv CONTRIBUTORS
As the saying goes, “we have come a long way.” Autism as a separate
and distinct disorder is a phenomenon of the last half century. The
common diagnosis given to children who displayed the bizarre and
unusual behaviors described above was that of childhood schizophre-
nia. In 1943 a psychiatrist, Dr. Leo Kanner, identified 19 children who
exhibited characteristics and symptoms that he felt were qualitatively
different than children diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia. He
characterized these children’s behavior by the presence of the follow-
ing symptoms: (a) an extreme detachment from human relationships,
(b) an excessive demand for requiring sameness (i.e., requiring the
physical environment to be predictable), (c) an inability to use lan-
guage to communicate, and (d) a fascination with objects. Based on his
initial report along with a follow-up report of 120 children by
Eisenberg and Kanner in 1956,1 the identification of children with early
infantile autism was founded. Perhaps the thing that most set these
children apart was their detachment from their social environment. In
particular, the child and its mother seemed to be unresponsive to each
other during psychiatric consultations. It was probably this pattern of
behavior that was a major factor in the formalization of this disorder
and helps explain the theory that first emerged to explain the disorder.
Unfortunately, the child’s unresponsive manner to their parents (and
vice versa) led to misguided theories about why this would be. The term
“emotional refrigerator” was coined in a book by a psychoanalytically
1
2 CHILDREN AND AUTISM
2 Brown, J. L. (1960). Prognosis from presenting symptoms of pre-school children with atypical
development. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 30, 382–390.
IN THE BEGINNING 3
3 Exposure theory should be logically discounted and viewed as inherently flawed because
children with autism often came from families where English is spoken regularly. This theory
would only make sense in families where language is rarely used.
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