New article: Social Validity of Paediatric Feeding Treatment across Goals, Processes, and Outcomes
Surprisingly, despite its importance and attention given in discussion currently in our field, supporting data and research are very much lacking. Data are needed in paediatric feeding to help accurately disseminate this highly important, effective, acceptable, and valued treatment, increasing access to treatment for families in need to improve their quality of life, and increasing opportunities for training/education for professionals. This is the first report to our knowledge to analyse social validity data comprehensively across variables such as participant characteristics, goals, treatment processes, treatment components, and outcomes. Ratings were high across the board (4.8 & 4.9 out of 5). Check out the results/graphs/tables! Future research could get caregiver input to design assessments, and use methods to analyse open-ended data (as in Anderson et al., 2021), in addition to the extensions to this work in Taylor & Taylor 2022b.
New JABA article: Taylor & Lanovaz (2022): Agreement between visual inspection and objective analysis methods: A replication and extension
New free full text JABA article available https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.921!I was trained separately on group statistics and visual inspection of single-case experimental design, but not trained on objective supplements for visual inspection. After much searching I...
New full text article: Social Validity of Pediatric Feeding Treatment Components Across Time
Free editable surveys to use! Check out the supplementary docs for this article (scroll to the bottom at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bin.1879). These could be used by both practitioners and researchers, and adapted for any area of ABA, not just feeding. Lots of clinical utility and future directions for further research.
What Works in Paediatric Feeding? Our Publication Featured by the Association for Science in Autism Treatment: Research Synopsis
“In this month’s issue, Sheila Klick, MEd, BCBA and Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, highlight the importance of carefully searching for and selecting, evidence-based treatment options when children are experiencing feeding issues. While reviewing research by Taylor & Taylor (2021), the authors describe how current recommendations may not align with current research, and how parents can beware of adverse reactions to these treatment options.” The distance between empirically-supported treatment and actual practice for paediatric feeding problems
