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Episode 201- Advances in Treatment for Autistic Adults w. Dr. Sungwoo Kahng Dr. Christopher Manente

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

As part of our effort to get the word out about the need for more robust services for adults with disabilities, we invited two passionate supporters of this important work, Dr. Sungwoo Kahng and Dr. Christopher Manente. We learn all about recent replications and novel extensions supporting the autonomy and employment skills of autistic adult clients, as well as some of the benefits and challenges specific to supporting this population.

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Pubylski-Yanofchick, W., Zaki-Scarpa, C., LaRue, R.H., Manente, C., & Kahng, S. (2021). Treatment of food selectivity in an adult with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00650-z

Butler, C., Kobylarz, A., Zaki-Scarpa, C., LaRue, R.H., Manente, C., & Kahng, S. (2020). Differential reinforcement to decrease stereotypy exhibited by an adult with autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral Interventions, 36, 261-270. doi: 10.1002/bin.1760

Kahng, S., Butler, C., Kronfli, F.R., Zaki-Scarpa, C., Boragi, B., & Scott, J. (in prep). An individualized approach to teaching adults with autism to successfully navigate job interviews via remote instruction.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer.

0:20.1

I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and I'm

0:23.1

joined by my fabulous co-hosts. Hello there, Robert Perry Cruz. This is one of your co-host,

0:30.7

Jackie McDonald. And it's me, Diana. Did I mention you both were fabulous? I think I forgot.

0:38.2

No, usually you do give us a lot of compliments, but this time, no, none.

0:42.3

Zero compliments.

0:43.1

I'm a little off of my chain of introductions.

0:45.9

Welcome, everyone.

0:47.3

And my just my co-host, just my plain old, ordinary co-host.

0:52.5

It's been one of those days, you know, I'm, and I'm not feeling hyperbolic in my introductions.

0:58.3

Oh, but you know what? I mean, I saved it. I say, I have to save the hyperbole. There we go. Okay.

1:02.1

Because on this podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research in which every week we pick a topic related to the field and discuss relevant research to that topic. I have to

1:12.6

save my hyperbole because we have not one but two guests joining us tonight to talk about this

1:19.6

episode's topic which are advances in treatment for autistic adults. And those two very special guests

1:25.7

are Dr. Sun Wu Kong and Dr. Christopher Menente.

1:30.1

Sungwu, Chris, thank you so much for coming on the show. I saved my hyperbole for your

1:34.3

amazing achievements in research that you'll be discussing tonight. Thanks very much. I'm very

1:40.4

flattered. Same here. Good to be here. Oh, boy. So we are very excited. We've done a few

1:47.2

episodes across the length of the show on services and treatment for adults. We had one not too

1:53.0

long ago, but it is one of those topics. And you mentioned it in the three research papers we'll

1:57.0

be discussing tonight that just always feels like it's not getting as much attention as it

2:02.3

should be. And there are so many questions about generality, about which treatments will or will not

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