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ADOLESCENCE

Stages of change
a. Early - 10 to 13 yrs
- increase hormonal activity
- newly formed skills
b. Middle
- 13 to 16 yrs
- experimentation
- risk taking due to peer
pressure,
acceptance, rebellion
c. Late - 16 to 19 yrs
- challenges
- future plans
Development Task (Havinghurst, 1953)
- clear sexual identity
- emotional independence
- economic independence
- select and prepare for occupation
- socially responsible
- establishing values and ethics
Issues/Challenges
- acceptance
- independence
- establish identity
Characteristics of adolscent with disabilities
1. Visual impaired
- subaverage speed
- limited mobility
- decrease abstract reasoning
2. Auditory impaired
- language develpomental delay (oral
& written)
- interferes in emotions and behaviors
3. Learning disabled
-cognitive, social, emotional,
behaviors
(primary concern)
4. Behavior disorder
- inappropriate satisfactory relations
w/ others
- fails to meet and/or exceeds
interpersonal
skills (i.e., conversation)
a. Mild - transient, disability w/ or w/o
interventn
b. Mod - intensive, interferes school
c. Sev - inability to function in all areas
5. Mental retaardation (mild to moderate)
- language development
- abstract reasoning
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limited incidental learning


short term memory
absent generalization
diminished motor/physical health
generally isolated
challenging behaviors

Assessment with disability


- obtain informations of persons competency
2 types of transition
1. Traditional - validity yet limited practical
usage
2. Functional - nonstandardization, informal
assessmt
I.

Traditional assessment
a. Psychometric/Standardized testing
i. Intellectual & academic
assessment
Ex. Weischler Adult (WAIS)
b. Academic achievement test
Ex. Basic Occupational Therapy Test
(BOLT)
c. Aptitude test - disadvantage: limited
validity
II. Functional assessment
- independence in doing ADLs in the
environment
a. Psychometric/Standardized testing
i. Interest inventories
Ex. Ready Prevocational Interest
Inventory (RPII), Strong
Campbell
b. Personality test - qualitative attitude
c. Adaptive behavior scales
Ex. Adaptive Behvavior
Assessment System (16-89 yrs) a selfrating tool
Informal functional assessment
1. Work Sample
- predict trainability
- types
Ex. Valpar Component Work Sample:
10 series
- each series amounts to 15K
- very expensive but very
concrete
- face-out

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Student school records


Rating devices
Rating scales
Interview
Portfolio assessment
Situational assessment
- used with ASD/PDD
- realistic, has minimum anxiety
Ex. Jacobs Prevocational Skills
Assessment
8. Behavioral analysis
- focuses one to two behaviors at a
time
a. Anecdotal recording - narrative
b. Frequency recording - counting
behaviors
c. Duration recording - long time
d. Internal recording - percentage
e. Behavior recording
9. Environmental assessment
- functional mastery of environment
TRANSITIONING TRAINING
Goal: be functional in home and community
- preferences
- post-school (i.e., vocational)
- adolescence to adult
- being practical
EXECUTIVE SKILLS
- therapist acts like a coach
- helps identify, organize, plan & manage
emotions
- handle novel situations
- manage one self to achieve a goal
Ex. Executive Skills Questionnare by Peg
Dawson & Richard Guare (for 10+ yrs/can
already understand)
5 elements
1. Planning
2. Error correction
3. Novel sequences
4. Difficult situations
5. Resisting temptation/inhibition
1 yrs - selective
2 yrs - problem solve, language
development
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3 yrs 5 yrs 11-13 12 yrs 12-15 15/16 15-18 18-21 20-29 Ages -

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flexible to plan
significant inhibition, reflect actions
boys has good visual memory
goal
goes thru changes, on going plan
intentional
plan maturely
peak planning
peak of executive functioning
declines

Metacognition - thinking of thinking what to


do
Requires SSS: Self-awareness, Selfmonitoring,
Self-control
Executive functions - works together,
isolation is not
possible
1. Thinking skills (POTMW)
2. Behavior regulation (RSTFG)
a) Response inhibition
b) Self-regulation emotion
c) Task initiate
d) Sustained attention
e) Flexibility (revising plans)
f) Goal-directed persistence (volitiontenacity)- eye on the prize; pacing
Time management - project planning
Metacognition - talk about how?; process
Flexibility - brainstrom, situation
- Social thinking by Michelle Garcia
Winner
Self-regulation
- Relaxation techniques (10 types)
Memory - digit retention
In psych eval tools used are: pick-a-test,
COTE, MSE

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