Heres a link to the study that Ian referred to in is brief overview of TARPA research. In this study an earlier version of the TARPA was tested on five children with Autism and its results were correlated with scores on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior scale.
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lauramoran
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Ian Stewart
One thing that might be useful for the TARPA group is for individuals or research groups to put resources they’re using (e.g., consent forms, customised data sheets etc.) online. Those could be separate from particular documents (such as the manual, the tracking sheets, fidelity check list) that are ‘officially endorsed’ so that everyone uses them. Some documents that people are using themselves could become officially endorsed if they’re seen to be potentially useful for everyone. For example, Laura, who is doing a PhD with me, created a pretty useful data sheet with excel. That might be adopted more generally so that it might be easier to transfer data via e-mail etc.
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Ian Stewart
Overview of TARPA research
Hi folks
I’ve added a brief overview on TARPA research to the TARPA research section of VB3.
Ian
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Siri
New TARPA Version!
After a bit of user-testing with my friendly neighborhood subject pool, we’ve come up with a much improved training protocol for the Transformation of Function stages, as reflected in the newest version of the TARPA on the Downloads page. All the info is in the latest manual, also posted to the Downloads page.
We’ve also made the decision to reformat the sequence of testing (not the structure of the TARPA, but the order in which testing proceeds). This new sequence is reflected in the new manual and new tracking form on, you guessed it, the Downloads page.
Also, as I wrote before, we’ve been talking about the need for a quick version of the TARPA. Well, we are now going to be testing a couple different short versions, and I have posted tracking forms for a super-quick version as well on the downloads page. It’ll be interesting to see what the data tell us!
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Siri
More thoughts on fast-tracking and quick versions
Ian and I recently discussed the need for a “quick” version of the TARPA, and had the idea that one option for us to consider would be to just run 2-comparison visual all the way through. In the current full version, we could take a look at what single strands like that might correlate well with overall performance. But it might also be interesting in the current pilot tests to just get a sense of how that type of version might run and how quick it would actually go, by doing it with a couple typically developing kids. This might also give us a sense of whether it is ultimately better/more user/subject-friendly to run the test in tracks like that vs. all modalities at once. I may try this with my own little test subject…
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Siri
TARPA Research Begins!
I am very excited that the TARPA research pilot projects are starting, with the fabulous crew at Chrysalis working with their kids at home and starting the project at school. I’ve been testing a few typical kids as well (whoever’s parents will let me experiment on their children, lol, which means relatives and neighbors and of course my own often-recalcitrant test subject here at home).
As I’ve been working with typical kids fairly far above the range this level of the TARPA was originally designed to be testing, a few things have occurred to me as I go through the protocol. First of all, subsequent versions of the TARPA might do well to include some fast-tracking options/opportunities. This could be based on the number of errors made (e.g. one or less) prior to reaching the passing criterion during the first time the participant is trained on conditional discriminations for particular stimuli. We could then perhaps significantly reduce the criteria for passing subsequent re-training and maintenance sections, possibly even skipping retraining at the discretion of the administrator of the test.
It’s also been quite interesting to see the dramatic difference between a few younger and older kids on their abilities to do 2-comparison vs 3-comparison discriminations and derivations. This wasn’t something we had necessarily anticipated, and it will be very interesting to see the results come in with more kids of all ages and with/without autism. I wonder exactly what this difference in performance is picking up in terms of language skills vs attentional abilities, etc.
Brooke Walker, 
Siri 12:46 pm on March 17, 2010 Permalink
Thanks for the reminder, Ian! There is a new function within the groups that allows anyone to upload documents–just go to the “documents” tab in the main group pages.
Josh Pritchard 12:52 am on November 12, 2010 Permalink
I see “TARPA Downloads” – but it asks for a password, how do we get that?
Siri 7:46 am on November 12, 2010 Permalink
Hi Josh! I’ll email you the password. For anyone interested in the TARPA, please just email me and let me know how you found out about the TARPA and how you’re interested in using it.
thanks!
Siri
nesrhten 6:03 am on April 28, 2012 Permalink
Hi Siri, I meet the same as Josh, but I can´t find your e-mail address
Brooke Walker 10:14 pm on May 12, 2012 Permalink
Hi Siri! What is your email address? I would also like to obtain the password.
Siri 9:49 am on May 14, 2012 Permalink
Hi! you can reach me at siri (at) siriming.com. The TARPA is currently being revised and set up as an iPad app. I will respond to your email today. thanks for your interest! (and FYI, I’m doing a workshop that will include some TARPA demos at ABAI this year)