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Staff Preparation and Performance Management: Applied

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Autism Service Delivery

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This chapter reviews staff preparation and performance management methods within human service organizations (HSOs) for children and adults with autism. From an applied perspective, HSOs must define staff responsibilities and implement evidence-based and empirically supported procedures in the context of didactic, simulated, in vivo, and peer training. The focus of performance management is on conducting staff supervision to sustain and generalize trained skills. Several examples of effective performance management programs are presented.

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    James K. Luiselli Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA-D

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    Florence D. DiGennaro Reed

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    Derek D. Reed

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Luiselli, J. (2015). Staff Preparation and Performance Management: Applied. In: DiGennaro Reed, F., Reed, D. (eds) Autism Service Delivery. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2656-5_17

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