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This chapter describes the use of modeling as an intervention with children on the autism spectrum who also experience sleep problems. Video modeling and video self-modeling lead to rapid and sustained change in interventions with children on the autism spectrum and potentially a story with pictures using the child or a peer as model would do the same. Often the behavior established is novel for the child and provides feedforward or learning from the future. The chapter provides an overview of the limited amount of research relevant to employing such techniques with sleep problems in children on the autism spectrum. The limited research on social stories is considered and their potential to provide feedforward and to be used in the same manner as other self-models noted.
Written by an author known as the father of self-modeling and drawing on several practical examples, this chapter goes on to provide detailed information describing how to go about making a video or pictorial model which can be modified for children of differing ages and sleep presentations. The advice profferred ranges from deciding the essential elements of the storyline and the essential steps involved in making the model, the role of reinforcement, the power of the techniques to avoid the use of extinction through to detailing specific scenes and working around the child who is a reluctant actor. Specific examples are given depicting how models have been varied for differing situations. Finally step by step detail is provided for the making of a video or story for one specific child.
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Dowrick, P.W. (2022). Self-Modeling: Falling Asleep Following a Picture-Based Plan. In: McLay, L.K., France, K.G., Blampied, N.M. (eds) Clinical Handbook of Behavioral Sleep Treatment in Children on the Autism Spectrum. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99134-0_11
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