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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Assessing Behavioural Flexibility in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Green, V.A.</span> and <span class="person_name">Sigafoos, J.</span> and <span class="person_name">Pituch, K.A.</span> and <span class="person_name">Itchon, J.</span> and <span class="person_name">O'Reilly, M.</span> and <span class="person_name">Lancioni, G.E.</span> (2006) <xhtml:em>Assessing Behavioural Flexibility in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.</xhtml:em> Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 21 (4). pp. 230-236. ISSN 1088-3576</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1630/1/Green2006c.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1630/1/Green2006c.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />327Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productView.aspx?ID=1649">http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productView.aspx?ID=1649</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Researchers associate an insistence of sameness or lack of behavioural flexibility with autism and Asperger syndrome, but few studies have sought to identify specific situations in which individuals insist on sameness. Along these lines, we developed the Behavioural Flexibility Rating Scale (BFRS) and conduted an Internet survey of parents of individuals with autism, Asperger syndrome, and Doen syndrome. A total of 726 respondents submitted usable returns during the 3-month survey period. Parent report indicated that individuals with Asperger syndrome showed the most problems in relation to the insistence on sameness as measured by the BFRS, followed by individuals with autism and Down syndrome, respectively. When diagnosis was controlled, there were no gender or age differences. This preliminary investigation suggests tha the BFRS may be useful in identifying specific situations in which indivudals insist on sameness or show a lack of behavioural flexibility may be useful in planning interventions focused on promoting greater behavioural flexibility.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The final, definitive version is
available at http://www.proquest.com</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Behavioral Flexibility Rating Scale (BFRS), autism, Asperger syndrome</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/330108.html">330000 Education > 330100 Education Studies > 330108 Special Education</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1630</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Mrs Anita Cubit</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">30 Aug 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1630;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1630">item control page</a></p>
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