Publications & Assessment Tools
Our TEACCH publications are listed here as their usefulness has been expressed in growing consumer interest over the years. They include our eleven volumes "Current Issues in Autism", and related books, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, (JADD) our assessment instruments, and teaching activities. We also list training tapes, and documentaries showing various program components in operation. Some of our publications first appeared almost 25 years ago. These publications do not feature the latest quick fix or fad, replete throughout the short history of the autism spectrum. Instead, they are listed because they include the enduring building blocks of empirically tested information on which our growing knowledge of the autism spectrum is based, information which shapes our cutting edge service developmental and educational interventions. Our Current Issues series have provided autism research survey over a period of several years, JADD, edited at TEACCH since 1974, provide the most current autism research reports.
The growing and enduring popularity of our Assessment series is in part due to the long term development procedures initiated by our parent-professional collaboration. Each of our assessment instruments was formulated and revised by each of our regional TEACCH Centers, and was not released for publication until found useful in all of our regional TEACCH Centers. Our assessment series has been in use for over 20 years. However, the PRO-ED series is currently undergoing some important revisions. For example, PEP-3 will include a comparison group of children with autism rather than only a comparison with typical children. The AAPEP will be broadened for use in transition planning from school age to adolescence and adulthood. Likewise our publication of teaching activities will be revised to incorporate the most current knowledge. The section will provide information on revision as they become available.
The third section identifies available training tapes for the CARS. It also includes documentary films produced by the Asahi Shimbun Welfare Foundation to facilitate the understanding and dissemination of important TEACCH program components.
These publications represent one of the unique contributions of the TEACCH Model, that is, the development of new service components and educational procedures on empirically established knowledge, while at the same time maintaining access to the latest, pilot studies. These are then evaluated for implementation when supporting empirical evidence becomes available. This dual process is a major element of the TEACCH Program being adapted in different cultures and countries around the globe: see entry Int. J. of M.H., research.
The several distributors for each publication are identified to facilitate comparison and ordering of these products.
Gary Mesibov; Director
Division TEACCH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |  |
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| International Journal of Mental Health M.E.Sharpe |
| Home Teaching Kits, Levels I & II |  |
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| Material Kits |
| Adolescent and Adult Psychoeducational Profile (AAPEP) |
| Psychoeducational Profile - Revised (PEP-R) |
| See other TEACCH Materials newly available!!!! | ||
