Trainee: Alissa Levy

PhD Candidate

York University

Supervisor: Dr. Adrienne Perry

Research Project: The realities of the transition of children with autism from IBI programs into the school system

For my Master’s I examined the opinions of both IBI program and school staff of the ideal transition process and compared this to their actual experience of transition. My doctoral dissertation will expand on the results of this study. I have chosen transition as my area of concentration due to the importance of this process for children with autism. I am planning on following a group of children with autism, both high and low functioning, transitioning from IBI programs into the school system. I will address three main research questions: the specific process of transition experianced by these children, the ability of children with autism to generalize skills learned in IBI to the school setting and what contextual variables (i.e., integrated versus segregated classrooms, student-teacher ratio, teacher experience, etc.) are associated with children’s generalization and continued learning (versus other outcomes).

Publications

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Presentations

1. Levy, A (2006, November). The transition of children with autism from Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) Programs into the school system. Presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Behavior Analysis Conference, Toronto, Ontario.
   
2. Levy, A. & Perry (2006, September). The transition of children with autism from Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) Programs into the school system. Poster session presented at the Autism Rounds meeting, Toronto, Ontario.
   
3. Levy, A. & Perry, A. (2006, May). The transition of children with autism from Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) Programs into the school system: Perception of IBI and school staff. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Association of Behavior Analysis Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
   
4. Levy, A. & Perry, A. (2006, April). The transition of children with autism from Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) Programs into the school system. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities Research Special Interest Group Conference, Barrie, Ontario.
   
5. Penn, H.E., Pritchard, E.A., Levy, A., Solish, A., Mitchell, S., Snider, J. & Perry, A. (2005, March). The York measure of quality of IBI: Initial reliability and validity. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities Research Special Interest Group Conference, Barrie, Ontario.