Pediatricians should counsel families on the common issues and intervention strategies
related to elopement. By increasing awareness of wandering in children with ASD …

Past research demonstrated an increased risk of premature and excess mortality for autistic
individuals. 1–3 One review noted that the risk of death in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is …

A core feature of autism spectrum disorder is resistance to change, such as difficulty
transitioning from one activity or environment to another. Transition-related problem …

Elopement is a prevalent and dangerous behavior that is common with children with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). Due to safety, logistics, and effort on the part of stakeholders …

Functional analyses (FAs) provide clinicians with results upon which they design behavioral
treatments. Unfortunately, interrater reliability of visual analysis of FA results can be …

Background Elopement jeopardizes patient safety, affects the hospital's reputation, and
results in financial ramifications. In an academic community hospital, executive leadership …

A team of behavioral consultants applied the Behavioral Analytic Consultation to Schools
model while working with educators in a public school setting to evaluate and treat …

We replicated and extended research on incorporating naturalistic discriminative stimuli into
schedule thinning following functional communication training with three boys with autism …

Elopement is one of the most common forms of problem behavior for individuals with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) and is associated with the greatest probability of a lethal outcome …

Functional assessment is a technique consisting of a set of procedures that define the
relationship between events in the environment and specific target behaviors. The purpose …