Anders Dechsling

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Associate Professor

Contact

+4769608782

+4741471185

anders.dechsling@hiof.no

Study place

Halden

Office nr.

F1-083

Special education

I am currently employed at the special education section at the Faculty of teacher education and languages. My work is mostly located at the masters programme in special education, but I also teach other programs related to special education.

Ph.D project

Recently, I completed my work in the position Doctoral Research Fellow and submitted my doctoral dissertation connected to the project “A Virtual Reality Intervention for Children with Autism”. The project aims at giving children and adolescents with autism an opportunity to practice on social situations in a virtual environment - using Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Our contributions to the research field consist of acceptability data on such technology, review articles, a conceptual framework for VR using evidence based methods, teacher evaluations of implementation of VR-technology in schools, and empirical testing of important features before conducting a VR-intervention for enhancing social skills.

Project leader and main supervisor is professor Anders Nordahl-Hansen.

Academic interests

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Virtual Reality (VR), with focus on social skills.

Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions.

Special Education and Behavior Analysis.

Normative considerations prior to interventions.

Background

Bachelor in vernepleie and a Master´s degree in Learning in Complex Systems.

Work experience as a social educator and family guidance.

Positions held

Board member in the Faculty board of Teacher Educations and Languages.

Norwegian Association for Behavior Analysis, chapter Østfold, leader.

Reviewer for:

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Research in Developmental Disabilities, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Attention Disorders, International Journal of Human - Computer Studies, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Behaviour & Information Technology, Frontiers in Education, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, Norwegian Journal of Behavior Analysis, Nordic Journal of Pedagogy and Critique.

Projects

Research groups

DeveLeP – Development Learning and Psychological Processes

Tags: The Digital Society

Løkke, Jon Arne & Dechsling, Anders (2023). Forhåndssjekklista: Fem viktige forutsetninger for å bruke Sjekklista for målrettet tiltaksarbeid. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 50, p. 70–79.
Dechsling, Anders; Cogo Moreira, Hugo; Gangestad, Jonathan; Johannessen, Sandra & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2023). Evaluating the Feasibility of Emotion Expressions in Avatars Created from Real Person Photos: Pilot Web-Based Survey of Virtual Reality Software. JMIR Formative Research. ISSN 2561-326X. 7. doi: 10.2196/44632.
Dechsling, Anders & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2023). Virtual Reality and Autism. In Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Eds.), Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-032-35056-1. p. 85–95. doi: 10.1201/9781003325086-7.
Andersen, Fredrik; Herikstad, Yngve; Sütterlin, Stefan & Dechsling, Anders (2023). Negotiating Consensus for Diverging Evidence. An Application of the Explanatory Approach to Guidelines for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Addiction. In Zachmann, Karin; Bondio, Mariacarla Gadebusch; Jukola, Saana & Sparschuh, Olga (Ed.), Evidence Contestation: Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies. Routledge. ISSN 9781003273509. p. 167–189.
Børtveit, Line; Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Nordgreen, Tine & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2022). Guided Internet-Delivered Treatment for Depression: Scoping Review. JMIR Mental health. ISSN 2368-7959. 9(10), p. 1–24. doi: 10.2196/37342. Full text in Research Archive
Orm, Stian; Orm, Cathrine; Mebostad, Mette Ingebrigtsen; Dechsling, Anders & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan (2022). Confirming the Validity of the School-Refusal Assessment Scale—Revised in a Sample of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 13, p. 1–6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.849303. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Children with developmental disorders, such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), are at high risk of school-refusal behavior (SRB) compared with their peers. One of the most used scales to assess SRB is the School Refusal Behavior Scale – Revised (SRAS-R). The SRAS-R has demonstrated good psychometric properties when used with the general population of children but recently its validity has been questioned when used with children with developmental disorders. We tested the psychometric properties of the SRAS-R parental reports in 96 children with ADHD (Mage = 12.4; SD = 1.7, 61.5% boys). Results showed good model fit and internal consistency for the original four-factor structure. Three of the factors were strongly correlated, suggesting that SRB among children with ADHD are caused by several factors. Copyright © 2022 Orm, Orm, Mebostad, Dechsling and Nordahl-Hansen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Gabarron, Elia; Dechsling, Anders; Skafle, Ingjerd & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2022). Discussions of Asperger Syndrome on Social Media: Content and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter. JMIR Formative Research. ISSN 2561-326X. 6(3). doi: 10.2196/32752. Full text in Research Archive
Dechsling, Anders; Orm, Stian; Kalandadze, Tamara; Sütterlin, Stefan; Øien, Roald A & Shic, Frederick [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Virtual and augmented reality in social skills interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. ISSN 0162-3257. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05338-5. Full text in Research Archive
Andersen, Fredrik & Dechsling, Anders (2021). Nudging, hva er det og bør vi benytte oss av det? Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 48(2).
Skafle, Ingjerd; Gabarron, Elia; Dechsling, Anders & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan (2021). Online Attitudes and Information-Seeking Behavior on Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and Greta Thunberg. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). ISSN 1661-7827. 18(9). doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094981. Full text in Research Archive
Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Lugo, Ricardo Gregorio & Halvorsen, Lars Rune (2021). A Critical View of the National Student Survey as a Quality Indicator in Norwegian Higher Education. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. ISSN 2387-5739. 7, p. 362–375. doi: 10.23865/ntpk.v7.2306. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Student surveys are an integral part of quality assessment in the education sector and play a vital role in the justification of policies and decisions on governmental, institutional and individual levels. Each year in Norway a governmental agency for quality assurance in education conducts a national survey inviting all registered second year bachelor’s and master’s students to provide online feedback on their perceived study quality. We discuss the limits of the results' interpretability in the light of previous research criticising the validity of student surveys for the assessment of educational quality in general and discuss in more detail the limitations in the chosen Norwegian example. This article aims to increase the awareness of these challenges and stimulate a science-based development of alternative assessment forms of educational quality. The relationship between the educational sector's core activity and the survey's focus is discussed; suggestions for paths to improvement are made. We argue further that the nationwide assessment lays bare the conceptual deficits that may be of equally high importance for educational system evaluations in other countries.
Dechsling, Anders; Shic, Frederick; Zhang, Dajie; Marschik, Peter B.; Esposito, Gianluca & Orm, Stian [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2021). Virtual reality and naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities. ISSN 0891-4222. 111:103885, p. 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103885. Full text in Research Archive
Arntzen, Erik; Dechsling, Anders & Fields, Lanny (2021). Expansion of Arbitrary Stimulus Classes and Function-Transfer Measured by Sorting Performances. Journal of The Experimental Analysis of Behavior. ISSN 0022-5002. 115(1), p. 326–339. doi: 10.1002/jeab.665.
Herikstad, Yngve; Hoel, Mia Kristin; Falck, Haakon Tuman & Dechsling, Anders (2020). Possible Tensions Between Individual Needs and Collective Treatment Methods for Substance Use Disorders and Addiction. Nordic Journal of Social Research. ISSN 1892-2783. 11(1), p. 175–194. doi: 10.7577/njsr.3821. Full text in Research Archive
Dechsling, Anders; Øien, Roald A & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2020). Om metode: Bruk av inter-observatør enighet og inter-rater reliabilitet i NTA, og forslag til utvidelse av repertoaret i atferdsanalytiske studier. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 47(1), p. 5–16. Full text in Research Archive
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Børtveit, Line; Zhang, Dajie & Øien, Roald A [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). An Overview of Virtual Reality Interventions for two Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Intellectual Disabilities and Autism. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 12197, p. 257–267. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50439-7_17.
Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2020). Acceptability and normative considerations in research on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Virtual Reality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 12197, p. 161–170. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50439-7_11.
Dechsling, Anders; Larssen, Lill Melissa & Herikstad, Yngve (2019). Bruk av tegnøkonomi for å korte ned latenstiden etter friminutt for en elev med Downs syndrom. En systematisk replikasjon. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 46(2), p. 65–69. Full text in Research Archive
Løkke, Jon Arne; Orm, Stian & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Misforståelser om anvendt atferdsanalyse i nevrodiversitetsbevegelsen. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 46(1), p. 55–63. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Nevrodiversitetsbevegelsen er en bevegelse av autistiske personer og deres pårørende som stadig blir lagt mer merke til i Norge. Vi startet ut med en hypotese om at det i nevrodiversitetsbevegelsen finnes en rekke misforståelser om atferdsanalyse. Gjennom tematiske analyser av innlegg om nevrodiversitet har vi identifisert åtte kategorier med gjentakende misforståelser. Vi redegjør for paradigmatiske forståelser og mulige årsaker til misforståelsene. En analyse av grunnleggende antakelser innenfor nevrodiversitetsbevegelsen, atferdsanalyse, og den medisinsk-psykiatriske modellen viser mange ulikheter i epistemologi og teknikker. Ulikheter i grunnleggende antakelser er ikke et problem, men konstruerte misforståelser om atferdsanalyse bør forsøkes forebygd og endret.
Dechsling, Anders & Arntzen, Erik (2019). Emergente relasjoner og mulige konsekvenser for begrepet stimulusklasser. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 46(1), p. 1–13. Full text in Research Archive
Granmo, Sjur; Løkke, Jon Arne; Halvorsen, Lars Rune; Dechsling, Anders; Kvebæk, Sindre & Navestad, Bjørn Erik (2017). Preferansebasert mandopplæring for barnehagebarn med forsinket utvikling i barnehage. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse (NTA). ISSN 0809-781X. 44(2), p. 63–78. Full text in Research Archive

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Nordahl-Hansen, Anders ; Dechsling, Anders; Herrebrøden, Marte Karoline; Johansson, Veslemøy Maria Fossum & Ulriksen, Line Britt (2024). Pågående studie om foreldres holdninger til skoletilbud ønsker deltakere til undersøkelse. [Internet]. stiftelsensor.no.
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders ; Dechsling, Anders & Lorenzo Lledo, Gonzalo (2023). Evolution of the intellectual structure of virtual reality and augmented reality interventions for children and adolescents during the period 2010-2022.
Dechsling, Anders & Andersen, Fredrik (2023). Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Dechsling, Anders (2023). Virtual Reality og Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions for barn med autisme.
Skafle, Ingjerd; Dechsling, Anders; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders & Gabarron, Elia (2022). Online attitudes and information-seeking behavior on autism and Asperger’s syndrome.
Dechsling, Anders (2022). Virtual reality interventions in autism.
Dechsling, Anders; Vister, Oda Marie; Johansen, Trine Elise; Herikstad, Yngve & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2022). Implementing Virtual Reality technology for autistic students: Teacher’s perspective on success factors and challenges.
Dechsling, Anders (2022). Virtual Reality for barn med autismespekterforstyrrelser.
Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Lugo, Ricardo Gregorio & Halvorsen, Lars Rune (2021). Studiebarometeret måler ikke studiekvalitet. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
Dechsling, Anders (2021). Bruk av Virtual Reality for å trene sosiale ferdigheter. Atferdsanalysens bidrag.
Løkke, Jon Arne; Orm, Stian; Myhre, Martin Øverlien & Dechsling, Anders (2021). Autisme og selvmord: En systematisk litteraturgjennomgang.
Arntzen, Erik; Dechsling, Anders & Westgård, Anne (2021). Performance when novel stimuli are presented in the sorting test.
Børtveit, Line; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan; Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan & Nordgreen, Tine (2021). Tredjegenerasjons atferdsanalyse i internettlevert behandling for pasienter med depresjon.
Orm, Stian; Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Øien, Roald A & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan (2020). Virtual Reality to Enhance Social and Emotional Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Dechsling, Anders (2020). Research Focus: Autism Spectrum Disorder & Virtual Reality, Anders Dechsling. Thrive Nordics.
Dechsling, Anders (2020). Vernepleieren i doktorgradsløp: «hvorfor er det viktig at også vernepleiere tar dette løpet».
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan; Børtveit, Line; Zhang, Dajie & Øien, Roald A [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Virtual Reality Interventions: Autism and Intellectual Disabilities.
Dechsling, Anders; Sütterlin, Stefan & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2020). Acceptability and normative considerations in research on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Virtual Reality.
Dechsling, Anders (2020). Husk denne følelsen av tapt frihet. For noen er det hverdagen. Fredrikstad Blad.
Dechsling, Anders; Orm, Stian; Øien, Roald A; Sütterlin, Stefan & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2020). Virtual Reality and Behavior Analytic Interventions on Social Skills for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.
Herikstad, Yngve; Tøfte, Håkon; Dechsling, Anders & Løkke, Jon Arne (2020). Her er tips til hvordan du kan snakke om selvmord. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
Løkke, Jon Arne; Orm, Stian & Dechsling, Anders (2020). Misconceptions About Behavior Analysis Among Neurodiversity Proponents. Show summary
Misconceptions about behavior analysis is prevalent among students and teachers, but to our knowledge, no earlier study has investigated misconceptions among potential receivers of applied behavior analysis. People with autism, engaged in the neurodiversity movement, are potential receivers of ABA, but misconceptions might be a barrier to seeking behavior analytic service delivery. The main purpose of this study was to identify possible misconceptions in the neurodiversity movement. We identified N=20 entities (e.g. book chapters, articles, blog and social media posts, websites etc.) and used thematic analysis to identify the misconceptions and conceptions about behavior analysis in these posts. The current study shows that neurodiversity proponents holds, and spreads, several misconceptions about behavior analysis. The themes emerging from the thematic analysis will be presented together with descriptive statistics showing the frequency of each misconception. Misconceptions about behavior analysis in the neurodiversity discourse could potentially hinder autistic people and their families from getting balanced information about intervention alternatives.
Jelsness-Jørgensen, Lars-Petter; Dechsling, Anders & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2020). Slik har du aldri sett høyskolerektoren før – nå skal denne VR-teknologien hjelpe barn med autisme. [Newspaper]. Fredriksstad Blad.
Dechsling, Anders (2019). VR kan gi autister en bedre hverdag. [Radio]. NRK1 Østfoldnytt.
Dechsling, Anders (2019). Om forskningsprosjektet: A Virtual Reality Intervention for Children with Autism. [TV]. NRK.
Dechsling, Anders; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders & Øien, Roald A (2019). Derfor vil Virtual Reality kunne bedre hverdagen til barn og unge med autisme. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
Orm, Stian; Løkke, Jon Arne & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Stian Orm og Jon Arne Løkke for NAFO Østfold 2018. [Internet]. Vimeo.com.
Orm, Stian & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Autismespekterforstyrrelser i barnehagen.
Orm, Stian & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Autisme og spesialpedagogikk i barnehage.
Løkke, Jon Arne; Orm, Stian & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Misforståelser om atferdsanalyse i nevrodiversitetskulturen: en gjennomgang av fremstillinger i ulike medier. Show summary
Vi tar utgangspunkt i artikkelen "On Misconceptions About Behavior Analysis Among University Students and Teachers" (Arntzen, Løkke, Løkke & Eilertsen, The Psychological Record 60(2):325-336 March 2010). Med misforståelsene i denne artikkelen som utgangspunkt, har vi lest og analysert litteraturen og innlegg i offentlige medier om autisme og nevrodiversitet. Hovedhypotesen er at denne diskursen preges av mange misforståelser og vrangforestillinger om atferdsanalyse. Et eksempel er retorikken brukt av Facebooksiden "Autistics and Allies Against ABA Ireland" som skriver at "ABA is abuse against Autistics" og lignende. Vi presenterer noen av misforståelsene og noen mulig løsninger som gjør at personer som er opptatt av autisme kan få en balansert fremstilling av atferdsanalyse.
Andersen, Fredrik & Dechsling, Anders (2019). Nudging, bør vi egentlig drive med det?
Dechsling, Anders & Løkke, Jon Arne (2019). Tre steg for å se mennesket foran diagnosen. Vernepleier.no.
Dechsling, Anders; Arntzen, Erik & Fields, Lanny (2019). Formation and Expansion of Stimulus Classes Documented by Sorting Tests.
Dechsling, Anders (2019). Session Chair: Experiences in Special Education (2).
Dechsling, Anders; Orm, Stian; Sütterlin, Stefan; Øien, Roald A & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (2019). Virtual reality interventions for persons with autism spectrum disorders:: A systematic scoping review.
Dechsling, Anders (2018). Verdien av kartlegging.
Arntzen, Erik; Dechsling, Anders & Fields, Lanny (2018). Sorting documents the formation and expansion of stimulus classes.
Dechsling, Anders (2017). Bruk av DRI-prosedyre med tegnøkonomi og response cost for å redusere uvaner hos normaltfungerende gutt.
Løkke, Jon Arne; Granmo, Sjur; Halvorsen, Lars Rune; Dechsling, Anders; Kvebæk, Sindre & Navestad, Bjørn Erik (2016). A preference-based mand intervention in a Discrete Trial Training (DTT).
Dechsling, Anders; Kvebæk, Sindre; Navestad, Bjørn Erik; Granmo, Sjur; Halvorsen, Lars Rune & Løkke, Jon (2016). Etablering av spontane vokale mands hos et førskolebarn med forsinket utvikling.

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