Category Archives: Projects
New Research Grant on Caregiver Safety
Congratulations to Drs. Bev Temple & Toby Martin, and colleagues at St.Amant and New Directions, for their successful grant application to the Research and Workplace Innovation Program at the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba. The 2-year grant, titled Working with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Injuries and Challenging Behaviour, aims to understand how workplace injury occurrence [...]
ABA Intervention and Brain Plasticity
How does Applied Behaviour Analysis intervention – the most evidence-supported treatment for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders – change brain activity patterns?
Finding the Causes of Problem Behaviour
To address problem behaviour, it’s essential to know why it’s happening. This process is time- and labour-intensive – but could there be a faster way?
Meeting Knowledge Needs
We recently began a landmark collaboration with St.Amant School to meet a pressing need for high-quality information about treating challenging behaviours. In this two-year project, researchers and teachers will develop a knowledge translation process to make relevant research findings user-friendly, easily accessible, and available to all teachers and related professionals.
Learning to Ask the Right Questions
Can caregivers reduce problem behaviours by making simple changes to the way that they present requests and instructions?
Error-Correction Procedures
We’re investigating the instructional value of a common teaching procedure. Is error-correction always helpful? If not, when should it be used? Full Title: Comparison of error-correction procedures for teaching topography- and selection-based responses Co-Investigators: May Lee, M.A. & Dr. C. T. Yu Affiliations: St.Amant Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba Introduction Practicing [...]
Teaching Perspective-Taking
We’re evaluating a method for teaching students to take others’ perspectives. Children with autism often lack this critical social skill.
Pain Assessment Review
Dr. Bev Temple and colleagues have undertaken a scoping review on the topic of assessing and treating pain in people with developmental disabilities (DD).
Recognizing Sameness of Spoken Words
What’s the most effective way to teach students to recognize when spoken words sound the same?
ABA Longitudinal Evaluation
This project evaluates the long-term effects of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) intervention on the development of children with autism.
